As fuel prices soar, Karachi’s young fishermen make perilous journeys on makeshift plastic boats

KARACHI: In the pre-dawn haze earlier this week, as fishing communities in the downtrodden coastal settlements of Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi began to stir, 12-year-old Danish Rafiq set sail from his home on Bhit Island, navigating a rickety boat made of plastic barrels across the vast expanse of the Arabian Sea.

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