(18 Jun 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Taftan, Balochistan, Pakistan – 18 June 2025
1. Wide of Pakistan-Iran border, Taftan, vehicles arriving and pilgrims arrived from Iran standing by gate
2. Mid of pilgrims arrived from Iran in front of Pakistan-Iran border, Taftan main entrance
3. Mid of Pakistan-Iran border border with both countries flags and tankers parked
4. Wide of border
5. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Sher Bano, medical student in Tehran:
“We were living on the second and third floor of our hostel building and we were very scared because of the drones and bombing sounds. Whenever a situation like this happened, our building guards would bring us down to the ground floor, so we can evacuate building if the situation got worse, due to threats to our buildings. On the second day, some of us were shifted to north of Tehran where the situation was a little better.”
6. Mid of Bano with other colleagues
7. Close of luggage
8. Various of Mastafarwat talking to others about the situation
9. SOUNDBITE (Urdu/English) Mastafarwat (last name not given), Technical advisor in Tehran:
“Initially we were thinking that it will calm down, we will stay over there, but every passing day, just the situation was getting worse. Children were unable to sleep in the nights due the sounds of blasts. It was a traumatising situation, so eventually we talked to Pakistan embassy and they were successfully in evacuating us out and right now we are in Taftan.”
10. Mid of Taftan border tankers parked
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of Pakistanis arrived at the country’s Taftan border crossing on Wednesday, fleeing the conflict in neighboring Iran.
Sher Bano, a medical student from Tehran, was on the second floor of her hostel building when she heard “bombing sounds”.
“Whenever a situation like this happened, our building guards would bring us down to the ground floor, so we can evacuate building if the situation got worse,” she told the Associated Press on Wednesday.
Pakistan’s embassy in Tehran is organising evacuations for citizens who want to leave Iran because of the conflict with Israel.
Mastafarwat, a technical advisor from Tehra, said the situation had worsened overnight.
“Children were unable to sleep in the nights due the sounds of blasts it was a traumatising situation, so eventually we talked to Pakistan embassy and they were successfully in evacuating us out and right now we are in Taftan,” he said.
Pakistan has denied it will provide military assistance to Iran, including nuclear weapons, but it has strongly condemned Israel’s attacks.
Iran and Pakistan share a 900-kilometre (560-mile), largely lawless border where smugglers and militants roam freely.
Although Pakistan has shut some of the formal crossings, the ones at Taftan and Gabd-Rimdan in southwest Balochistan province remain open for nationals seeking to return home.
It comes as explosions were heard in Iran’s capital as Israeli warplanes pounded Tehran overnight and into Wednesday.
Less than a week into the conflict, Israel says its aircrafts have free rein over the city’s skies.
Iran launched a small barrage of missiles at Israel with no reports of casualties, and Israel has eased some restrictions for civilians.
Meanwhile, fear has gripped the Iranian capital as the streets are empty, businesses closed and communications patchy at best.
Thousands have fled.
Iran’s supreme leader on Wednesday rejected U.S. calls for surrender and warned that any military involvement by the Americans would cause “irreparable damage” to them.
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