Pakistan has opened six overland transit corridors to ferry shipments into Iran, aiming to clear more than 3,000 containers stranded at Karachi and Port Qasim as continued disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz throttle maritime traffic, Dawn reports. The decision follows a statutory regulatory order from the Ministry of Commerce last month that invoked a 2008 bilateral road-transport pact with Iran, permitting third-country cargo to transit Pakistani ports and cross-border road links into Iran.
This caused that authorities in the UAE are carrying out a large-scale deportation operation targeting tens of thousands of Pakistani workers, freezing bank accounts and seizing life savings as regional tensions rise following US–Israeli actions against Iran.
Initial reporting by New Lines Magazine put the number of deportees at 15,000.
