A dramatic escalation in the tactics by a Baloch separatist group came with the hijacking of a passenger train on Tuesday.

The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) is one of the most powerful insurgent groups operating in Balochistan, a resource-rich region bordering Afghanistan and Iran.

Chabahar, Iran’s southernmost port on the Makran coast, connects India with Afghanistan and Central Asia, bypassing Pakistan ...

Pakistan’s military said Wednesday that a two-day battle with separatist militants over a hijacked passenger train had ended ...

A low-level separatist insurgency in Baluchistan is one of the chronic ... projects being developed as part of the $65-billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), part of President Xi Jinping ...

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

China also manages Gwadar port ... but he was tricked into surrendering in 1959. In his book 'Inside Baluchistan', Mir Ahmad Yar Khan Baluch quoted Khan as describing the military action ...

Insurgents who attacked a passenger train in Pakistan killed 21 hostages, the military said Wednesday, while security forces ...

A military operation against militants who hijacked a train carrying hundreds of passengers in southwest Pakistan has ended, a spokesman for the army said late on Wednesday.

Armed groups like the BLA and the Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) have targeted security forces and China-funded projects ... leaders be consulted. "As Baluchistan is a land of numerous tribes ...

This frame grab from a video released by the Baluchistan Liberation Army shows people outside the train after it was attacked by the BLA (BLA via AP) The BLA had warned that the hostages’ lives ...