...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...Police said that the 70 men, 45 women and 30 children were all in good health and identified as Syrians or Kurds. Greek authorities launched the rescue after being alerted to the
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...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
It's quite common for smuggling gangs to dump
Thousands of people also try to enter Greece by sea. On June 14, a battered fishing trawler carrying up to 750 people sank far off southwestern Greece, with only 104 survivors.
The ship had left Libya for Italia, and Greece's coasties has been widely criticized for failing to rescue the
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Witness accounts suggested that between 400 and 750 people had crammed onto the 20- to 30 metre-long (65- to 100-foot) fishing boat which then capsized and sank early on June 14 about 50 miles (80 km) from the southern coastal town of Pylos.
The official corpse count from the accident still stands at 82 and the number of survivors at 104, of whom 12 were Paks.
Hundreds of people from different countries are believed to have been on board the vessel, in what is seen as the worst sea disaster in years for the region.
The FIA told Rooters today that the figure of 209 Pak victims aboard is based on information provided by families who came forward to say a relative of theirs had boarded the boat heading from Libya towards Greece and were still missing.
"An investigation to verify this is underway," FIA Islamabad Zone Director Rana Abdul Jabbar said.
Meanwhile,
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the government is yet to officially confirm how many of its citizens were on the boat, but kick-started a DNA sampling effort to help Greece identify those who died.
The data shared by the FIA showed that 181 people were from Pakistain and 28 from Azad Jammu and Kashmir
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...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
. Officials gathered the DNA samples from 201 families.