Armed militants attacked and hijacked a passenger train in Pakistan's Balochistan province, killing three people and taking over 450 passengers hostage. Pakistani security forces launched an operation ...
Yet Pakistan’s government shows little signs of engaging with the political solution required to end the conflict.
Pakistan’s prime minister has commended the country’s armed forces for successfully rescuing 339 passengers after a deadly train hijacking by insurgents in the southwest.
Pakistan Train Hijack: The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), which hijacked the Jaffar Express, heading to Quetta to Peshawar in Balochistan, has released a video of the hijacking, revealing how ...
Hostages freed after a day-long ordeal following a BLA militant attack on a Pakistan train recalled crouching on the floor for hours before their release.
More than 400 people were on the Jaffar Express on Tuesday when militants fired on the train and blew up the track in the ...
It is the first time that the BLA has hijacked a train. The government has rejected militant-prisoner swap demands in the past. Balochistan, which borders Iran and Afghanistan, has long been a ...
Amid escalating violence, Pakistan's Balochistan government bans night travel on major highways. This move comes after ...
Shahid Rind, a spokesman for the Balochistan provincial government ... or B.L.A., claimed responsibility for the train hijacking. The group gave conflicting numbers about how many hostages ...
Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif visited Balochistan to meet Jaffar Express attack survivors, a day after forces killed 33 BLA militants involved in the hijacking.
Credit: AP/Anjum Naveed Oil- and mineral-rich Balochistan is Pakistan’s ... reporters in Islamabad that BLA assailants who hijacked the train were in contact with their handlers in Afghanistan.