‘If I die, I die’: The allure of Pakistan’s death-trap route to Europe | Longform

‘If I die, I die’: The allure of Pakistan’s death-trap route to Europe | Longform

ByNews Polite

On a warm May evening, Touqeer Pervez packed two pairs of trousers, three shirts, a toothbrush and toothpaste into a small black backpack. The lanky 28-year-old with a neatly trimmed beard was getting ready to leave Bandli, his village in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, on a three-country trip that would see him…