Iran hands over 97 deportees to Pakistan

Islamabad, Jan 4, IRNA –Iranian authorities have handed ninety-seven Pakistani immigrants to Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) of Pakistan at Taftan border crossing in Balochistan. According to Radio Pakistan, these people had been arrested from different parts of Iran by Iranian security forces because they were living there without traveling documents. Pakistanis living in Iran illegally or trying to enter Iran illegally are regularly caught by Iranian security forces. Iranian authorities had been often deporting Pakistanis trying to enter into Iran. Unemployment and poverty-hit Pakistanis in search of jobs sneak into Iran via almost one thousand kilometers border line between the two countries. 1378/IRNA