A Journey in the Outskirts

by Muhammad Jawad Khan (Pakistan)

A leap into the unknown Pakistan

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I was studying in Balochistan University of Information and Technology. when i got an oppourtunity basically an internship in the outskirts of Balochistan Pakistan. For being a Petroleum Engineer its very hard to find an internship during Studies specially in Pakistan but for being among the top 5 students of the Class i got this oppourtunity. I have to report on the field at 8 o clock in the morning on 6th january but main problem was that the field was in dera bugti at Sui and the conditions of the area at that time was not good due to some issues between Fc Balochistan and Baloch tribes. Now i have to travel through the local transport as company is not providing any transport to me. I booked a bus ticket that had to leave 5 pm in evening i reached bus station exactly on time but when i saw the bus i got shocked because there was not a single mirror in bus all are broken and it was winter. When i asked the driver about bus condition he said if you want to go then take a seat or else i can take back my money but there is no other way at that time so i got inside the seats was torn off it was like i was seating on a bench. We started our journey it was cold at around 7pm about 100 km from Quetta city the tire got burst the driver stopped the bus and asked all the pessengers to wait outside at around 8pm we again started our journey. Now we were praying for our safety. At around 10 pm the driver stopped the bus again that was a FC checkpost they asked us to come outside and register our CNIC and also asked us the purpose for our travel. They told us that there was a recent attack on FC convoy and ordered driver to wait untill road is cleared. There was no hotel there so we have to wait inside the bus. After almost 2 hours they gave us the permission to travel again now we started our journey again the roads were broken and the bus was moving up and down in the mountains there was no population around the road i was scared because i had never travelled like this before many passengers in the bus slept but from me sleep was miles away we also made stopped around 2am and 3am at the checkpost but thats for a little while they just check our Cnic and let us go at around 5am in the morning we were at a dhaba we ate breakfast there and then started our journey again after 2 hours at around 7am we were in derabugti Sui there was a Fc checkpost there they again asked us for our purpose to enter in the village that was a small village having small huts in it after crossing the village i was at the main door of the field i had the letter so they allowed me to enter I could not sleep the entire night that journey was very tiring and memorable.