The lines and the stations are owned and operated by Pakistan Railways.
[1][2][3] Proposed link to Kandahar, Afghanistan Continues to Zahedan, Iran Pakistan Railways is working on plans to construct a 635 km standard-gauge line from Quetta to Taftan on the Pakistan-Iranian border.
[8] The proposed railway would support the transport of high-value goods to Europe and Central Asia.
Trains on the Islamabad – Tehran – Istanbul route currently take around five days to complete the journey, possibly due to poor or compromised condition of the track.
It is claimed that a standard-gauge line would reduce journey times to 20 hours.