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Last train to Zhob: Balochistan’s historic narrow-gauge railway fades into silence

  • Once the longest such route in British India, the Bostan-Zhob line now lies in rust and memory
  • Locals mourn loss of junction that once connected trade, lives and dreams in Pakistan’s frontier province
By SAADULLAH AKHTER ·

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