A dramatic escalation in the tactics by a Baloch separatist group came with the hijacking of a passenger train on Tuesday.

Since the 2000s, due to the notorious ‘kill and dump’ policy of the establishment, extrajudicial killings, enforced ...

Following a deadly train siege in southwest Pakistan in March, a video supposedly showing the gunmen threatening violence ...

Hundreds of train passengers taken hostage by a militant group in Pakistan were freed in mid-March after a 30-hour siege, ...

Hundreds of kilometres southwest of Islamabad, Balochistan is a landscape scarred by enforced disappearances, mass graves, ...

The BLA is one of the largest militant outfits demanding independence for Balochistan. It is designated as a terrorist group ...

Attacks targeting security forces are increasing in frequency and lethality in Pakistan’s southwestern province of ...

A passenger train, Jaffar Express, was attacked in southwestern Pakistan's Balochistan province on Tuesday, injuring the ...

The Balochistan Liberation Army or BLA is a Baloch ethnonationalist militant group operating from the southern regions of ...

The train hijacking in south-western Pakistan represents a major escalation in the region’s long-running insurgency.

The separatist Balochistan Liberation Army, which has been waging a yearslong insurgency in Pakistan, claimed responsibility for the attack. Officials at Pakistan Railways said the Jafar Express ...

a district in the restive Balochistan province. The Baloch Liberation Army, a U.S. and Pakistani-designated terrorist organization that has waged a yearslong insurgency in Pakistan, claimed ...