................''The fact that being a foreigner does increase the risk is increase the risk, if we don't travel the soldiers would be in there barracks''..................
I am sorry, but this is not true, ALL vehicles travelling through Balouchistan from Quetta to ISLBD recieve security escort regardless of nationality including local buses etc. if you had been there, you would know this ! The soldiers would not have been in their barracks, they would have been escorting someone else and to suggest that being a foreigner on a bycicle puts you more at risk is nonesense ! The overwhelming majority of these attacks have been sectarian in nature with Sunnis targeting Shias and vice versa and after the recent massacres of bus convoys and their armed escorts in Kohistan, who is to say that putting his bike on a bus would have made him any safer ?
It may sound simplistic, but the fact is, that Pakistan is a dangerous place and this guy just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and if it wasn't him it would probably have been someone else !
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