SUKKUR: A blast on the railway track near Shikarpur on Monday caused three coaches of the Jaffar Express to derail, leaving ...

Fahad Nabeel, who leads the Islamabad-based research consultancy Geopolitical Insights, says Bashir Zaib Baloch is the current leader of the BLA and was likely behind the Jaffar Express hijacking.

The attack, claimed by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), saw over 400 passengers held hostage for 36 hours. Pakistani forces launched a rescue mission, successfully saving over 300 passengers.

Amid the dusty plateaus and strategic choke points of Balochistan, a covert conflict is rapidly intensifying — one that ...

Pakistan’s focus on external threats over internal reconciliation highlights its failure to assert sovereignty through ...

Pakistan security officials said Wednesday that 30 of the militants had been killed while roughly 130 hostages were still held by the militants after the BLA attacked the Jaffar Express train and ...

Jaffar Express Hijacking Exposes Pakistan’s Failing Strategy in Balochistan By Mehrzaad Baluch ...

Days after a major train hijacking, the BLA targeted buses carrying Pakistani security forces. Both attacks highlight the BLA's new strategy of combining suicide attacks with conventional ...

Four soldiers died retaking the Jaffar Express; 21 of the hundreds of hostages had already been killed by the militants, some of whom may have been in the military as well.