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

Nilantha Ilangamuwa When the Jaffar Express was hijacked by the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) this week, my mind immediately ...

Train hijackers in Pakistan’s Balochistan province killed a total of 31 security personnel and civilians before they were ...

A stunning train hijack and hostage crisis this week, in which hundreds of passengers were held for a day by suicide vest-clad separatists, has made clear the limits of Pakistan’s ambitions for the ...

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

Balochistan, the largest and the most sparsely populated province of Pakistan, had always harboured dreams of being independent.

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

The deadly train hijacking episode has brought the region’s  struggle to the fore The recent hijacking of the Jaffar Express in Balochistan marks another deadly episode in the decades-long struggle ...

Baloch separatists who hijacked a Pakistani passenger train claimed to have executed all 214 military hostages after their ...

TRAVELING on Balochistan’s main thoroughfares, especially the Quetta-Karachi highway which connects the two provincial ...

The death toll from a militant hijacking of a train in Pakistan's southwestern mountains has risen to 31 soldiers, staff and ...