New train to connect Lahore and Karachi by an 18-hour journey

Newly-launched train 'Pak Business Express' will ply the 1,200 kilometres (800 miles) between Pakistan's two biggest cities, Lahore and Karachi, on an 18-hour journey that once used to take upwards of 30 hours.

In this photo: Pak Business Express is photographed at a station in Karachi on February 4, 2012. AFP