Balochistan, July 3 -- Highlighting the perilous state of Pakistan's transport infrastructure, at least 40 people were killed and eight others sustained severe injuries on Friday when an overloaded passenger bus skidded off the hazardous Sherani-Zhob highway and plunged into a deep ravine in the Danasar area, The Express Tribune reported.

The ill-fated vehicle was travelling from Quetta to Islamabad when it traversed the notorious border corridor between Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, exposing a glaring absence of highway safety barriers and structural safeguards on Pakistan's high-risk mountainous routes.

According to the Medical Emergency Response Centre (MERC), disaster response teams managed to pull out 40 bodies from the mangl...