Travel facilities are available to the people of Balochistan at the minimum level as most of the private airlines were allowed by the CAA to close all the sectors in this ignored and discriminated Province of Pakistan. Only PIA is operating a few flights connecting Quetta, the seat of the Provincial Government, with the Federal Capital or Karachi and Lahore. There are only two flights a week connecting Balochistan with Lahore, the heartland of Punjab with a more than 100 million population. Very few flights are available connecting Quetta with the major cities and human settlements of Balochistan. PIA had also closed most of the flights for unexplained reasons. Dozens of Airports in all the five ecological zones of Balochistan are closed on permanent basis with no scope to use it for air travel facilities. Turbat was the second busiest airport after Karachi handling more than 150 flights a week. No rarely there are flights for Turbat, Panjgur, Pasni, Ormara, Jiwani, Dalbandin, Sibi, Khuzdar, Zhob and many more airports of Balochistan. There is one flight a week to Gwadar connecting the Provincial Capital. Pakistan Railways had withdrawn a number of trains for Balochistan and the service of the existing trains between Quetta and Karachi, Rawalpindi had deteriorated to a great extent. Pakistan Government is no mood to make any investment to improve rail travel in Balochistan. The Federal Minister for Shipping had shown interest in Ferry Service in Balochistan and Karachi or with the Gulf countries. No investor is coming forward in this sector. The only option is that the owners of foreign shipping company to operate ferry service in Pakistan. Under the present security environment, hardly a bold investor from Dubai will come forward and operate the Ferry service between Karachi and the Gulf or with the Mekran Coast. The Ferry Service successfully operated between Karachi and Mekran Coast and to Muscat, Bahrain and Kuwait till 1960s. Only air travel facility had outclassed the ferry service in this sector.

Road transport got added importance as the only passenger bus service available for the people for inter-city travel. The Provincial Government is regulating the road transport and its writ is confined to Quetta city and its surroundings. There is free-for-all in rest of Balochistan where the owners of the buses were found harassing the passengers. Most of the passenger buses were found involved in smuggling of narcotics, smuggled goods and oil ensuring an early recovery of their investment in the transport sector. There was a deadly incident near Bela where all the passengers of the bus, including its driver and conductor, were burnt to death following a collision with the truck from the opposite direction. They were carrying smuggled oil from Iran and the vehicles caught fire following the collision. The Government immediately banned smuggling of oil on all passenger buses and other vehicles and issued instructions to the security officials to take appropriate action if anyone found violating the ban. However, the bus operators are ignoring this order and smuggling oil in large quantity to maximize their profit and earnings at the risk of the passengers. Hours and hours passenger buses detained at the check posts caught carrying smuggled oil. The passengers, mainly women and children and patients suffer a lot as the security personnel and bus operator bargain for money and finally the buses are allowed to proceed with smuggled oil. It is a great risk involving lives of dozens of passengers and the Government should take action against the bus operators and impound their vehicle on the spot if found carrying smuggled diesel or petrol. The entire staff of the check post should be terminated from service, after legal proceedings, if found conniving with the smugglers.