ISLAMABAD (AP) — More than 40 Pakistanis were feared to have drowned in the capsizing of a boat off West Africa's Atlantic coastline, which has emerged as a primary point of departure for migrants aiming to reach Europe. President Asif Ali Zardari expressed grief over the deaths and stressed the need for strict measures to curb human trafficking.

As many as 50 migrants, many of them Pakistanis, may have drowned in the latest deadly wreck involving people trying to make the crossing from West Africa to Spain's Canary Islands, migrant rights group Walking Borders said on Thursday.

Morocco and Spain's north African exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla moved closer to a "new era" of normalised trade ties on Thursday after the first passage of goods since 2018.

Pakistan said it had been informed by its embassy in Morocco that a boat carrying 80 passengers, including some Pakistanis, had set off from Mauritania and capsized near Dakhla, a Moroccan-controlled port city in the disputed Western Sahara.

GUJRAT/MADRID: Around 50 Pakistanis have died on a migrant boat, while trying to cross the Atlantic Ocean illegally to reach Europe, according to an NGO and victims’ families.

Ryanair is Europe's largest airline in many ways. According to the latest Cirium Diio data, it plans to serve 240 airports in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East this yearbu

Algeria's move came in retaliation after Spain in March publicly recognised ... which backs the Polisario movement seeking independence in the Western Sahara, had in August last year broke off ...

The United Nations special envoy for Western Sahara, the Italian-Swedish diplomat Staffan de Mistura, is set to hold a series of consultations in New York in the second fortnight of March.