The train hijacking in south-western Pakistan represents a major escalation in the region’s long-running insurgency.

Separatist militants killed at least 10 people after hijacking a train carrying hundreds of passengers in Pakistan’s ...

Militants in Pakistan have taken 35 passengers hostage after attacking a train in the south-western province of Balochistan.

This article is Soumya Awasthi, fellow, Centre for Security Strategy and Technology, Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi.

The hijacking of the Jaffar Express signals that the conflict in Balochistan is reaching a dangerous new phase.

At least 30 militants were killed in initial exchanges of gunfire. By Wednesday night, security forces had rescued 190 of the 450 passengers who were initially on the train when it was hijacked on ...

The south-western province of Balochistan remains one of Pakistan's biggest security headaches after many decades of an armed rebellion seeking independence for the mineral-rich region.

Some 190 passengers out of the initial 450 who were on the train from Quetta to the northern city of Peshawar were rescued.

Pakistani authorities have said an insurgent attack on a train carrying hundreds of people has ended, with all attackers killed following a day-long standoff. Some of the hostages taken were killed, ...

A “complex operation” is ongoing in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, according to a security source, after a ...

Separatist militants killed at least 10 people after hijacking a train carrying hundreds of passengers in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan on Tuesday, according to government and ...

Armed militants have taken more than 450 train passengers hostage and wounded the train driver in an attack in Pakistan's volatile south-western Balochistan province. In a statement claiming the ...