{"id":384892,"date":"2021-04-03T17:26:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T21:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=384892"},"modified":"2021-04-03T17:26:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T21:26:44","slug":"pakistan-works-to-stop-thousands-of-citizens-from-smuggling-oil-from-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pakistan-works-to-stop-thousands-of-citizens-from-smuggling-oil-from-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan works to stop thousands of citizens from smuggling oil from Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpakistan-works-to-stop-thousands-of-citizens-from-smuggling-oil-from-iran%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=384892&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2393518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2393518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A picture taken on March 12, 2017, shows an Iranian laborer walking the platform of the oil facility in the Khark Island, on the shore of the Gulf.&nbsp; (Photo by ATTA KENARE\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 2:18 PM PT \u2013 Saturday, April 3, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Pakistan is struggling to stop thousands of citizens from smuggling oil into the country from Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Reports on Friday said the Pakistan government has recently ordered an end to illegal trade. The move came in response to growing fears over the millions of dollars the economy has lost from oil smuggling.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2393519\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2393519\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2393519\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-35.jpeg\" alt=\"A picture taken on March 12, 2017, shows a view of an oil facility in the Khark Island, on the shore of the Gulf. \/ AFP PHOTO \/ ATTA KENARE (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"655\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-35.jpeg 655w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-652502830-315x210.jpg 315w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-652502830-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-652502830.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2393519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A picture taken on March 12, 2017, shows a view of an oil facility in the Khark Island, on the shore of the Gulf. (Photo by ATTA KENARE\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This struggle has lasted decades, but recently it\u2019s been further propelled by U.S. sanctions on Iran. Experts said it has become organized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt exists on both sides of the border. The allegation in Iran is that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards are part of this,\u201d Shahzeb Jillani of News Asia said. \u201cOn the Pakistani side, it\u2019s Frontier Corps, which is the paramilitary organization charged with manning the border that they are involved. Obviously both sides officially denied this, but facts on the ground and pictures we have seen speak for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan Today reported that more than 317,000 gallons of oil are smuggled into Pakistan every day, mainly in tankers whose drivers bribe officials on both sides of the border.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/activists-push-new-initiative-to-clear-homeless-encampments-in-seattle\/\">Activists Push New Initiative To Clear Homeless Encampments In Seattle<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A picture taken on March 12, 2017, shows an Iranian laborer walking the platform of the oil facility in the Khark Island, on the shore of the Gulf.\u00a0 (Photo by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311623,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-35.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Pakistan works to stop thousands of citizens from smuggling oil from Iran","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-35.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Pakistan works to stop thousands of citizens from smuggling oil from Iran","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}