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The men were discovered by authorities in Chiniot region of Punjab, more than 1,000km (620 miles) from the city of Karachi, where the truck started its journey.
Though goods transport is allowed to operate in order to ensure adequate supply of essential items across the country, the truck was waved down on suspicion stemming from some recent reports.
Videos shared on social media in recent days have shown migrant workers stuck in Karachi - Pakistan's largest city - paying goods transporters to ship them secretly to their home areas in Punjab and KP.
The containers are loaded on to trailer trucks and are passed off as carrying essential provisions. One picture showed dozens of people crawling out the back of a truck in the Mardan region, some 140km from the capital Islamabad.
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