21.   China in the past decade has become a popular smuggling route for Golden Triangle drugs bound for the United States and Europe.

22.   Favorite smuggling routes run from the former Soviet Union or Turkey across Romania to Western Europe.

23.   How effective the sanctions overhaul will be without plugging the smuggling routes or posting border monitors remains to be seen.

24.   However, the mountainous border, with thousands of paths and smuggling routes, is impossible to seal.

25.   It also is an important smuggling route for South American cocaine.

26.   It also reported an incident over the weekend in another border area known as a smuggling route.

27.   Large drug hauls and clashes with traffickers are common in Iran, which lies on a smuggling route from Pakistan and Afghanistan to the Gulf and Europe.

28.   Leaders of three Balkan countries along a major smuggling route signed an agreement Thursday to combat organized crime and declared they would form a free trade area this year.

29.   Lucrative smuggling routes also pass through the border province into neighboring Pakistan.

30.   Lucrative smuggling routes pass through the area into Pakistan.