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 ...

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 ...

(BLA via AP) An injured passenger rescued by security forces from a passenger train attacked by insurgents arrives at a railway station in Much near Quetta, Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan ...

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday visited the restive Balochistan province to review the law and order situation and to express solidarity with the people there following the ...

"We thank Allah that the operation in Balochistan has reached its logical conclusion," he said. "There were 440 passengers on board the train, and the Pakistan Army, FC (Frontier Corps), SSG ...

'Such cowardly acts will not shake Pakistan’s resolve for peace': Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif Spoke with Chief Minister Sarfaraz Bugti who briefed me on the latest developments in the heinous ...

The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for a train attack in Balochistan, taking hostages. The BLA demands an independent Baloch state, accusing Pakistan of exploiting the region's ...

ISLAMABAD, March 12 — Three people were killed and around a hundred hostages freed by Pakistani troops yesterday after armed militants attacked a train carrying over 450 passengers in the country’s ...

Twenty-one passengers were killed after a train in Pakistan was attacked and hundreds were taken hostage by the militant Balochistan Liberation Army on Tuesday, according to the Pakistani military.

(Bloomberg) -- Pakistani security forces said they rescued more than 100 people from a passenger train being held by militants in a remote portion of the country’s southwestern Balochistan province.

Sources said that no contact could be immediately made with the train crew due to the lack of mobile and telephone networks at the location of the attack. The local authorities in Balochistan have ...

Pakistan Train Hijack: The Pakistani army on Wednesday confirmed that the military operation against Baloch militants, who hijacked a train with hundreds of passengers in Balochistan, has ended. Army ...