According to media reports, there were about 450 passengers in the nine bogies of Jafar Express. The train was going to Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from Quetta in South-Western Balochistan province, when it was shot.
The question must be arising in your mind that what is this Baloch Liberation Army i.e. BLL? Which has given great tension to Pakistan. What is its history and what is its demand?
The BLA aim is to liberate Balochistan from Pakistan. It accuses the Pakistani government of exploiting Balochistan’s huge natural resources and violating serious human rights in the region.
According to media reports, the BLA is considered to be the largest armed group active in Balochistan. Experts believe that BLA has several thousand members.
The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has been active for more than 25 years and has mostly carried out small attacks, but in the last few months it has carried out many major attacks in Pakistan.
The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF), Baloch Raji Aajoi Sangar (BRAS) and other organizations allegedly carried out hundreds of attacks targeting military forces, infrastructure and state colleagues.
Collectively, these groups carried out 938 attacks, resulting in over 1002 deaths, 689 injured and at least 546 assets damaged.
The BLA remained the most active group in 2024, which carried out 302 attacks, allegedly killed more than 580 people, while more than 370 injured. Property was damaged in at least 171 attacks.
The BLA said that Majeed Brigade carried out six major operations in 2024, which reportedly caused a lot of damage to the Pakistani Army.
The BLA has been declared a terrorist organization by Pakistan, Iran, China, United Kingdom, United States, United States, European Union.
