Waiting at the Level Crossing: The Night Horror Scene on the Road from Rahim Yar Khan to Islamabad
Rahim Yar Khan → Islamabad • Night Journey Waiting at the Level Crossing: The Night Horror Scene on the Road from Rahim Yar Khan to Islamabad One lamp. One closed barrier. One long silence. This is the story of the wait that stopped our night journey in its tracks — and why it stayed with us long after the road opened again. There are moments on a long road journey when the road itself tells you to stop. Not with a sign or a traffic jam, but with a closed barrier, a dark field, and a silence so complete that it feels like the world has held its breath. That is exactly what happened to us on the night road from Rahim Yar Khan towards Islamabad, when we reached a level crossing and had to wait. We had been driving through the night, the way night travellers do: headlights cutting a small bright tunnel through the dark, towns flashing past, and the long stretches of empty road in between. Then, ahead of us, the barrier was down. The road ended at the railway tracks. And for a w...