Continuing troubles, we're getting out of here!

During our 2 day stay in Quetta, a rather miserable city which is riddled with high ranking Taliban members, we recieved news of bombs in Lahore and Peshawar. Our bosses back home and the Pakistan tourist office both told us the best thing to do would be to get out of Pakistan using a more southerly route than we had planned. We left Quetta under armed escort again, which ranged in firepower from 2 pickup trucks full of AK47 carrying police, to a dozy bloke nodding off next to me in the cab, to a shotgun carrying farmer on the back of someone elses moped! There were, of course, long waits between checkpoints while we were waiting for an escort to even bother turning up....