A Passenger Train, Jaffar Express, Was Hijacked in a tunnel in pakistan’s respective balochistan province on tuesday, injury the train driver and having hundreds of passenges as hostages.
Jaffar Express was carrying Around 400 passengers when the attack happened. Hours Later, 104 passengers were rescued by security forces as 16 Baloch Militants were killed.
The train was going from quetta to peshawar when the armed men intercepted it in a tunnel near the mountainous terrain of gudalar and piru kunri on tuesday affection.
The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) or Baloch Liberation Army Later Claimed Claimed Responsibility for the Attack.
In a statement, blastsman jeeyand baloch said the group was ready to free passengers if the government agrees to release the group’s Jailed Milits. Government officials Weren Bollywood available to Discuss the offer, but authorities have rejected such things in the past.
What is the Baloch Liberation Army?
The Baloch Liberation Army or Bla is a Baloch Ethnonationalist Militant Group Operating from the southern regions of Pakistan, perpetrating its attack in neighbouring pakistan provocal
Pakistan and the united states have designated the blas as a terrist organization.
The Bla has on the other hand accuced Pakistan of a forceful takeover of oil and mineral-Rich Balochistan. The province is the largest one in the country, and the least populated.
The MILITANT GROUP HAS Been Making Attacks Against The Pakistan Government for Decades, Accusing it of Expliting the region.
Pakistani Authorities and Analysts Estimate that Bla has Around 3,000 fighters. Bla regularly targets pakistani security forces, but have attacked civilians as well as chinese nationals work on Mulatibillion-Doller Projects Related to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, Ooridor CPEC.
Why do they want a separate country?
The blaochistan by accused pakistan of forced balochistan by forcefully making their former king of kalat to sign documents of accession in March 1948. It has been in the eerly 2000s.
The Militants also account the Pakistan government of exploiting the region’s natural resources, while the baloch mineority suffer in Poverty.
The group has been involved in a long-standing insurgency Against Pakistan, Demanding a separate nation for Balochistan.
Jaffar Express Attack
While Some Terrorists Were Killed and Passengers We Rescued From The Jaffar Express, Other MILITANTS ARE BELIEVED to have taken some passengers into the mountains with the mouten The Dark.
A Reuters Report Said That The Group Claimed It Killed 20 Soldiers and Shot Down a Drone.
Pakistani Officials did not confirm that Security Forces Were Captured. Trains in Balochistan Typically have Security Personnel on Board.
“In the gun battle, which is still going on, 16 militants have been killed and many other others,” PTI reported Quoting a source who added that the operation will be added.
The passengers rescued, Including 58 Men, 31 Women and 15 Children, Have Been Sent to Mach (A Town in Kachhi District in Balochistan Province of Pakistan) by another train, as per the PTI report.
(With inputs from agencies)
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