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Hi all,
We are currently in Shiraz and planning to cross the pakistan border at Taftan within 1-2 weeks. We are on two Yamaha XT600s. Maybe we could connect and travel to Quetta in a group?
Drop us a mail if that suits your plan!
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Seems like we all miss eachother. I'm now in Shiraz and planning to cross in about 2 weeks. Anyone want to tag along?
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21 Dec 2012
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Seems like we all miss eachother. I'm now in Shiraz and planning to cross in about 2 weeks. Anyone want to tag along?
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Welcome to Pakistan. Stay in touch. Looking forward to sharing your travel stories with Pakistani bikers in Lahore.
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Omar
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22 Dec 2012
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There are now reports of 11 'illegal immigrants' being killed by an unidentified armed group, while they were trying to cross from Pakistan to Iran. Wasn't specified, where on the border area this happened. Anyone have anything more on this?
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23 Dec 2012
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There are now reports of 11 'illegal immigrants' being killed by an unidentified armed group, while they were trying to cross from Pakistan to Iran. Wasn't specified, where on the border area this happened. Anyone have anything more on this?
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These unfortunate men were trying to cross the Gwadar border illegally. 7 were Pakistanis and 4 were Afghans.
Gwadar border is very far from the only working border of Taftan.
omar
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24 Dec 2012
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Would be interesting to know, who are responsible, and the motive behind such killings.
And though most travellers get through Taftan/Mir Javeh just fine, it is good to remember, that it is not an area to go wander on your own.
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26 Dec 2012
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You're not making me feel better about Pakistan :P
There's a german guy called Daniel in Iran also on a motorcycle. I don't know if he's on the Hubb also. He's currently in Yazd. We have scheduled to meet eachother somewhere about 30th december in Bandar Abbas to cross Pakistan together.
If anyone is interested in joining us please contact me.
My iranian cellphone is 09305739762
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10 Jan 2013
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Today over 80 people have been killed in two suicide bomb attacks in Quetta.
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Today over 80 people have been killed in two suicide bomb attacks in Quetta.
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Yeah ****. We just heard that too when we arrived in Lahore a few hours ago. We were there 3 days ago.
We arrived in Quetta on saturday and stayed at Hotel Bloom Star. We could not apply for the NOC to get out of the city because it was evening already. On sunday the 'home department' that handles the NOC is closed so we had to apply on monday. Our application was denied due to the roads being to dangerous so we loaded the bikes on the train on tuesday out of Beluchistan to Jacobabad. In the train we heard that the train was shot 4 days earlier. Here is the news article Four killed in firing on Jaffar Express in Bolan - thenews.com.pk
We thought that when we were out of Beluchistan we were free of escorts but we were escorted all the way to Lahore. At nights four to seven armed guards stayed in the hotel for our safety.
Haven't felt unsafe for a moment and although is was tough we had a great time the last week riding through Pakistan.
Oh and we threw all our video footage from Pakistan together:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3iTfCe_b74
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Iranian Automotive club info & Contact
This page was given to me by a friend in Iran
Touring & Automobile Club Of The Islamic Republic Of IRAN > Costum Regulation
They seem to think that it is fine to cross in Iran with the correct visa's. There are contact details on the page.
P.S Almost got Swindled by Iranianvisa.com... Going to Trabzon for visa's instead. Anyone out there from the UK who has got turned away at Trabzon?
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What is this NOC
I will be over landing India to Turkey etc next year so reading up on pros and cons..I keep hearing this NOC...what is is ...is it a permit or similar?
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