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

Health Minister Dr Azra Pechuho condemned the use of women and children as human shields during the hijacking of the Jaffar Express, calling it a reprehensible act. She also denounced the spread of ...

Mahrang Baloch, a prominent human rights activist and organiser of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), commemorated ...

ISLAMABAD, March 11 (Reuters) - Separatist militant group the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed that they had taken hostages during an attack on a train carrying hundreds of people, including ...

October 18, 2018 came bearing bad news for the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA). On that day, across the Afghan-Pakistan border, Kandahar’s police chief Gen. Abdul Raziq Achakzai was assassinated by ...

Per sources, there were 450 passengers onboard in the nine coaches, along with several army personnel. On March 12, 2025, the ...

The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) has claimed responsibility for the attack, but the regional unrest that birthed the ...

The Baloch Liberation Army, or BLA, which has waged a long insurgency in the restive southwest province of Balochistan, claimed responsibility for the ambush. Security officials said the military ...

Suicide car bomber hits buses carrying security forces, killing 5 in southwestern Pakistan - At least five Pakistani officers ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistani forces freed the remaining passengers from a train that was hijacked by separatist militants in explosive-filled vests who took hundreds of hostages and killed 21 ...

The militants, Baloch ethnic fighters, said they would kill dozens of seized security personnel if the Pakistani government did not agree to a prisoner exchange. By Zia ur-Rehman Reporting from ...