A failed crossing from Mauritania's coast toward Spain's Canary Islands in which 44 Pakistanis perished earlier this year has cast a spotlight on how globalized and sophisticated smuggling ...

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Tuesday announced it had arrested an agent involved in the Morocco boat tragedy, in which dozens of Pakistanis attempting to travel illegally to Europe had ...

From Pakistan to Spain via the Canaries, smugglers are using longer, more dangerous migration routes A failed crossing from Mauritania’s coast toward Spain’s Canary Islands in which 44 ...

But since last year, migrants from far-flung countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Yemen, Syria and Afghanistan have ...

While migration to Europe has been falling steadily, the Atlantic Ocean crossing from West Africa to Spain’s Canary Islands has reemerged since 2020. Nearly 47,000 people disembarked in the Canaries ...

At least 60 migrants, including several Pakistanis, are feared dead following two separate shipwrecks off the coasts of ...

Every year, tens of thousands of migrants set off to Europe from Africa in fragile wooden boats. But there’s growing evidence ...

So far this year, almost 1900 people have died trying to reach Spain by sea, and among them were many from Morocco, according to a new report from Caminando Fronteras, a human rights organization that ...

Ali said the smugglers lied to their families in Pakistan, who asked about their whereabouts and questioned why they hadn’t called from Spain. Finally, on Jan. 2, Iqbal, Ali and the other Pakistani ...