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 ...

This incident has reignited intense debate on the issue of Balochistan, but unfortunately, the debate has revolved more around subjectivity and lacked the important element of objectivity.

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 ...

Therefore, there is a need to understand the specific challenges in Balochistan as India is quite actively involved in the region and the pattern is almost the same as it was in Dhaka. Also ...

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

Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest and most volatile province, has been at the heart of a decades-long armed rebellion for independence. The latest escalation occurred on 11 March, when militants ...

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 ...

(AI-generated image/representational) The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), a rebel separatist outfit fighting for the separation of Balochistan from Pakistan, hijacked the Jaffar Express, heading to ...

Simultaneously, Saudi Aramco plans to invest around $10 billion in an oil refinery with a processing capacity of 300,000 barrels of crude oil per day. This investment aims to reduce Pakistan’s ...

“This incident changes the rules of the game, because these terrorists have no link to Balochistan or religion,” he said. Lt Gen Sharif said the army, air force, Frontier Corps and SSG ...

Pakistan Army on Friday (March 14, 2025) said that 18 of the 26 hostages killed by Balochistan Liberation Army militants, who ambushed a train in Balochistan, were army and paramilitary soldiers.