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

In Pakistan's Balochistan province, armed militants hijacked a passenger train, killing three people and taking over 450 hostages. Security forces responded swiftly, rescuing more than 150 ...

The surge in BLA attacks highlights the escalating security crisis in Balochistan, with authorities struggling to curb the insurgency.

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.

Many of the passengers killed were off-duty soldiers, the AFP news agency reported. Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti said "people have also been martyred, but we will share details later." ...

When a group of armed Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) militants bombed the tracks, fired on the train and stormed the carriages, the situation looked irredeemable. Authorities say that by the ...

The hijacking of the Jaffar Express in Balochistan has once again drawn attention to the region’s long-running insurgency. For decades, the Baloch people have resisted Pakistan’s military ...

Mufti Shah Mir was a leading religious scholar in Balochistan who had survived two earlier attempts on his life, reported local media. He was ambushed by gunmen riding motorcycles while leaving a ...

The Separatist militants of Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) fired on the Jaffar Express a passenger train carrying around 400 passengers across nine bogies in southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday.

Baloch separatists have taken hundreds of people hostage after attacking a passenger train. Scores have been freed after government forces launched a large-scale operation. Almost two hundred ...

Pakistan Army on Friday (March 14, 2025) said that 18 of the 26 hostages killed by Balochistan Liberation ... he showed through maps that the terrain was very difficult to reach.

Earlier this week, separatist militants in southwestern Balochistan hijacked a train, holding passengers hostage in a tense, day-long standoff with security forces. Pakistan has pledged to ...