The BLA has taken hostage an entire train after it broke the tracks as the train was passing through one of the tunnels in Pakistan's Bolan area. There were 500 passengers onboard but the group said it has released women and children and held hostage Pak and ISI personnel.

The hijack shows the capacity of groups like the BLA to not only carry out complex attacks but also engage in disinformation against the state.

The BLA has claimed that the train is under their control and they are holding about 100 hostages. Three people, including the train driver, had been injured in the attack. Pakistan security forces have been rushed to secure the hostages as the BLA has threatened to kill the hostage if a military operation is carried out against them.

Separatist militants hijacked a passenger train in a remote part of Baluchistan on March 12, demanding the release of Baluch prisoners.

The Balochistan Liberation Army claims it killed 6 security forces and seized a Pakistani passenger train carrying about 500 people in a remote, mountainous region.

Separatist militants on Tuesday attacked a passenger train operated daily from Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province to other parts of the country, injuring the driver, a Pakistan Railways official said.

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's restive southwestern province of Balochistan has been the scene of a yearslong insurgency, with a surge in attacks in recent years