Nice story  Good to hear people still using this route.
I've made this crossing four times and I certainly know what you mean about Taftan, it's like the world's largest scrap yard. Not a particularly good introduction to Pakistan. I did it a few years ago before the escorts got really bad - I had them once from Nushki to Quetta, but other times was alone.
I hope you won't get a negative first impression from this, and will spend some time exploring Pakistan. I prefer the road down to Karachi rather than to Sibi and Jacobabad, plus Karachi is a great place to start a full crossing of Pakistan. But the road to Jacobabad is also nice.
Let me know if you have any questions about places to go in Pakistan
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EurasiaOverland a memoir of one quarter of a million kilometres by road through all of the Former USSR, Western and Southern Asia.
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