Pakistan bans night trains in southwest

Timetables have been changed and trains will only run in daytime to limit the damage from any further attacks by angry nationalist tribesmen in Baluchistan demanding more political rights, jobs and royalties from the province's natural resources.

Services between Quetta, the provincial capital, and southern Karachi city resumed Tuesday after engineers repaired tracks damaged by a bomb late Monday. The same line was hit by another explosion on Saturday.

"The timing has been changed due to security concerns and no train will operate at night," Railway Deputy Controller Ghulam Rasool told AFP.

Five railway engineers were injured by Tuesday's blast near Sibi, around 150km from Quetta. Another blast earlier the same day hit a key government building in Quetta, although no one was hurt.