Pakistan PM Visits Quetta
What’s behind the surge in attacks and train hijacking in Pakistan’s restive southwest?
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s neglected southwestern province of Balochistan has been the scene of a yearslong insurgency, with a dramatic uptick in attacks in recent years underscoring the struggles the government in Islamabad faces in dealing with myriad security threats.
Balochistan train attack over, some hostages killed, say Pakistani officials
An injured passenger rescued by security forces from a passenger train attacked by insurgents arrive at a railway station in Much near Quetta | Photo: AP Quetta (Pakistan): Pakistani authorities on Wednesday confirmed that an insurgent attack on a passenger train in Balochistan had ended after a prolonged standoff,
The train hijacking in south-western Pakistan represents a major escalation in the region’s long-running insurgency.
On March 11, the Jaffar Express—a nine-bogie passenger train with a capacity of 700—was hijacked in the remote Mushkaf area ...
A dramatic escalation in the tactics by a Baloch separatist group came with the hijacking of a passenger train on Tuesday.
QUETTA: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday said that Pakistan cannot move forward on the path of progress without ...
Hostages freed after a day-long ordeal following a BLA militant attack on a Pakistan train recalled crouching on the floor ...
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Pakistan’s prime minister has commended the country’s armed forces for successfully rescuing 339 passengers after a deadly train hijacking by insurgents in the southwest.
Says political differences will continue but consensus needs to be achieved on saving the country from terrorism, urges ...
A seven-plus-decade insurgency based on the rights of self-determination, as well as discrimination by Islamabad, has ...
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