The Jaffar Express attack by the Balochistan Liberation Army left dozens dead and triggered a 30-hour military operation.
Hundreds of kilometres southwest of Islamabad, Balochistan is a landscape scarred by enforced disappearances, mass graves, ...
Since the 2000s, due to the notorious ‘kill and dump’ policy of the establishment, extrajudicial killings, enforced ...
QUETTA: Hand grenades were found in three coaches of the Jaffar Express brought to Quetta Railway Station a week after it was ...
Hundreds of train passengers taken hostage by a militant group in Pakistan were freed in mid-March after a 30-hour siege, ...
Pakistan is not wrong in claiming that it is a victim of terrorism. The Global Terrorism Index 2025, ranks Pakistan as the ...
The Balochistan Liberation Army has long been a shadowy force on Pakistan’s security landscape, transforming from a ...
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BLA's proxy exploits train attack
A violent protest erupted in Quetta as members of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), led by Mahrang Baloch, attempted to exploit the bodies of slain terrorists killed in the Jaffar Express attack ...
The outlawed Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), during the attack on the Jaffar Express, blew up train tracks and held over 440 passengers hostage in a day-long standoff with security services in a ...
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Jaffar Express - the changed rules
The heinous attack on the Jaffar Express and the hostage taking drama by Baloch separatists close to Bolan Pass, Dadhar near Sibbi is as despicable as the APS attack by TTP et al on 16 December 2014, ...
The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), an organisation led by the controversial Baloch rights activist Mahrang Baloch, has come ...
After two days of intense military operations, 33 attackers were killed, and 26 passengers — including 18 army and FC ...