Pakistan is a tribal nation and a history full of internal conflict. Certainly since 2001, the mountain region of the Pakistani/Afganistan border has become the focus of the global fight against the Taliban. This region, maybe more than any other needs careful management.
For this reason alone I have plotted a route more east of Quetta than Google maps offers me. I first expected the roads to be worse than the Highway I came in on, but actually, and probably because of less overall traffic, I find that the Harnai road is in better shape. I have been using Tripmondo for some of my information on this route. I expected the three and a half hour drive to take much more than that, but decided to carry on through to Loralai along the Sinjawi road.