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India Dismisses Pakistan’s Balochistan Claim, Calls it ‘Epicenter of Terrorism’

14 Mar 2025

India has strongly rejected Pakistan's allegations that it was involved in the Jaffar Express attack. Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan on Thursday accused the rebels involved in the attack of being in touch with their ring leaders in Afghanistan. Responding to these allegations, MEA official spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal...

Taliban Rejects Pakistan’s Claims Of Afghan Links To Balochistan Train Hijacking

14 Mar 2025

The Taliban government in Kabul on Thursday (March 13) turned down Pakistan's allegation that the militants from Afghanistan were responsible for the hijacking of the Jaffar Express in Balochistan. The attack by the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) stranded hundreds of passengers hostage in the Bolan region. The train was going...

Pakistan: TTP Militants Launch Suicide Attack On Jandola Military Camp, Injuring Several

13 Mar 2025

A suicide bombing of the Jandola military camp in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was reportedly conducted by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), as per various media reports. Pakistani security personnel successfully fended off the attack, killing eight to nine militants close to the Frontier Corps (FC) camp in South Waziristan, Geo...

What Actually Happened During Jaffar Express Hijack? | TDG Explainer

13 Mar 2025

On Tuesday, the Jaffar Express, a train with almost 400 passengers traveling from Quetta to Peshawar, was hijacked by Balochistan separatists. The train was ambushed while it was moving through the hilly Bolan Pass, an area with colonial-era tunnels, by militants of the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), a separatist movement...

How Pakistan Troops Launch High-Stakes Operation To Storm Hijacked Train In Balochistan

13 Mar 2025

In a dramatic resolution to a tense hostage crisis, Pakistani security forces stormed the hijacked Jaffar Express on Wednesday, eliminating 33 separatist militants and rescuing hundreds of passengers. The operation, marked by explosions and violent gunfire, ended a day-long standoff that left 21 passengers and four security personnel dead. The...

Jaffar Express hijacking: Second hostage crisis in Pakistan | TDG Explainer

13 Mar 2025

The passengers aboard the Jaffar Express were in for a long but otherwise routine journey from Quetta to Peshawar on March 11, 2025. The train, loaded with 400–500 passengers in nine coaches, had just crossed into the remote Bolan district of Balochistan when the deafening sound of an explosion shattered...

Baloch insurgents deal Rawalpindi GHQ a body blow

13 Mar 2025

Pakistan is witnessing an unprecedented escalation in insurgent activities, with the hijacking of the train Jaffer Express carrying 400 passengers—many of them security personnel—on Tuesday, around 160 kilometers from Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province. At the time of writing, around 155 hostages have been rescued and 27 Baloch insurgents...

PAK TRAIN HIJACK: THE GROWING BALOCH INSURGENCY

12 Mar 2025

In a shocking development on Tuesday, the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for a violent attack on the Jaffar Express, a passenger train traveling from Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan, to Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The insurgent group announced that they had hijacked the train, taking 214 passengers...

Magnet For Separatist Militants: The Dark Reasons Behind Repeated Attacks On Pakistan’s Jaffar Express

12 Mar 2025

The hostage situation aboard Pakistan’s Jaffar Express has now entered its second day. Baloch separatists from the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) hijacked the train on Tuesday around 1 p.m. in the Sibi district, a mountainous region of Balochistan bordering Afghanistan and Iran, while the train was en route from Quetta...

Pakistani Father Dies By Suicide To Save Daughter From Forced Marriage Verdict

11 Mar 2025

A Pakistani father took his life in tragedy after a tribal assembly, or jirga, instructed his 12-year-old daughter to be forcibly wed to resolve a conflict, police reported on Tuesday. The case became known after a recording of the father, Adil, was posted on social media. On the recording, he...

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