Editing Quetta (section)

== Transportation ==
[[File:Engine at Quetta Railway Station.jpg|thumb|Passengers boarding a Chaman bound train at Baleli, Quetta|left]]
[[File:Quetta Railway Station - 40311.jpg|thumb|[[Quetta railway station]] was built during the [[British Raj]]]]
Quetta is on the western side of [[Pakistan]] and is connected to the rest of the country by a network of roads, railways and its international airport close to its centre.

At an altitude of {{convert|1605|m|ft|abbr=off}} above sea level, [[Quetta International Airport]] is the second-highest airport in Pakistan.<ref>[http://www.caapakistan.com.pk/quetta.aspx Quetta Airport] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090629224734/http://www.caapakistan.com.pk/quetta.aspx |date=29 June 2009 }} CAA Pakistan. Retrieved 24 June 2009</ref> [[Pakistan International Airlines]] has regular flights to and from the other major cities of Pakistan including [[Islamabad]], [[Gwadar]], [[Karachi]], [[Lahore]] and [[Peshawar]].

[[Quetta Railway Station]] is one of the highest railway stations in Pakistan at {{convert|1676|m|ft|abbr=off}} above sea level. The railway track was laid in the 1890s during the British era to link Quetta with rest of the country. The extensive network of [[Pakistan Railways]] connects Quetta to Karachi in the south, by a {{convert|863|km|mi|abbr=on}} track, [[Lahore]] in the northeast (1,170&nbsp;km or 727 miles) and [[Peshawar]] further northeast (1,587&nbsp;km or 986 miles). A metalled road runs alongside the railway that connects Quetta to Karachi via the nearby town of [[Sibi]] to [[Jacobabad]] and [[Rohri]] in the plain of the [[River Indus]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/bomb-attack-targets-worshipers-quetta-mosque-killing-14-200110153518661.html |title=Bomb attack targets Worshippers at Quetta mosque, killing 14 |website=www.aljazeera.com |access-date=12 January 2020 |archive-date=14 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200214213529/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/bomb-attack-targets-worshipers-quetta-mosque-killing-14-200110153518661.html |url-status=live }}</ref>