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Hi DougieB,

In PK it'd be a lot more interesting as the police don't have any money (for diesel) or for vehicles (or wheels for vehicles or...).
Have to disagree, most experiences I've had a Hilux escort - a short stretch from Taftan to Quetta, Kharan to Nushki, up the Khyber Pass. Only hitchers wer on the Makran coastal highway.

The Iranians always demand a ride, are usually boorish and unhelpful, the complete opposite of the charming Pakistanis.

Just my two rupees...

Know the chap in the picture above, lovely guy... good memories of Baluchistan

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Have to disagree, most experiences I've had a Hilux escort
Oh yes, don't get me wrong, the vast majority were pickups (and mostly Hiluxen) but my two days along the Taftan-Quetta road required four armed pillions. The first time (where their vehicle was up on bricks with no wheels and the m/c had no petrol) a guy appeared on a moped and persuaded me that unless I wanted to wait for some time then I'd better have the pillion. Three that day and the one for a very uncomfortable (for him) 115km from Dalbandin towards Quetta -- where I was sent on my way for 50km to Nushki (an hour and then 10km hilux escort up the twisties and then sent on my way again until the Lak Pass).

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Only hitchers wer on the Makran coastal highway.
It was your report and pictures of the Makran Coast that persuaded me to head down that way but all the vibes were bad and I'd had enough. To be fair, the vibes from the police were always bad. I think I was just fed up. A long way to go!

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Know the chap in the picture above, lovely guy... good memories of Baluchistan
Yes, he looks familiar. I agree the Balochis seemed very friendly to me. I never felt any animosity despite being conspicuously white and western. Much like McGiggle, above, though less female!

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Oi, "but less female"!!!!!!!!!!!!! that's my wife............... I'm the red blooded male taking the pix. If I wasn't so in choon with my own sexuality I could of taken offense.

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and wat's a "hilux escort".......................................
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Oi, "but less female"!!!!!!!!!!!!! that's my wife............... I'm the red blooded male taking the pix
Oh, I'm sorry, I have a cold.


The "Hilux escort" is one of the Toyota Hilux pickup trucks the police mostly have. Mostly they had a frame and canvas cover over the flatbed part with a couple of bench seats for the rather bored policemen to sit in. Apart from the RRG, on the way out of Quetta, who rather excitedly deployed themselves around whenever the vehicle came to a halt for the boss man to chat to one of his mates. Hmm, thinking about it they deployed themseves around the police truck not around me.

There was one very new Hilux with fat tyres at the north end of the N25 (Quetta-Karachi road) which went *incredibly* slowly presumably to protect the truck from being damaged too quickly on the terrible road.

The older (skinny-tyred) ones went a bit quicker (but only one ever went quickly) but they were less likely to maintain any speed on any kind of a rise.

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and there was me thinking it was a different type of "hilux escort"
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Damn... I just read this thread and this is aweful. My experience with escorts in that area (in 2006):

In Iran, none, except from Zahedan to the border.
In Pakistan, none from the border to Quetta. Tried to go via Bannu to Peshawar. Told to turn around by a gas seller and followed his advice. Got picked up in DG Khan and escorted to DI Khan, from there sans escort to Peshawar. That was the last escort I had.

I did stop at the tribal police posts, as they usually had a string or chain across the more deserted roads. Very friendly, sign the guestbook and away you go.

The military and police are more annoying. If it was one or two guys and I could see no sidearms or radio (hardly ever a vehicle), I'd just keep going.

Hope the KKH is open again .. That's the area to be, Karimabad, Marpin etc...

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