Pakistani fuel smugglers feel the pinch from Iran war

The illicit trade has long thrived in the region but is feeling the knock-on effects of the war which has engulfed the Middle East following US-Israeli strikes on Iran. Supplies coming across the 900-kilometre (560-mile) border between Pakistan and Iran have dropped by nearly half and driven up prices. "Before the war, the rate was good," Hakeem Ullah, a 35-year-old driver, told AFP. "We used to get petrol for 150 rupees ($0.54). But now, after the war, we are getting petrol for 190 rupees per litre." Ullah is one of dozens of young men in the border towns of Balochistan...