Assistant train driver Saad Qamar’s family didn’t know if he had been killed. On Thursday, he’ll be back at work.

Armed militants attacked and hijacked a passenger train in Pakistan's Balochistan province, killing three people and taking over 450 passengers hostage. Pakistani security forces launched an operation ...

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.

Pushp Saraf The sensational and unprecedented hijacking of a train along with its passengers on March 11 has once again brought into sharp focus the disturbing reality that Balochistan, one of the ...

More than 400 people were on the Jaffar Express on Tuesday when militants fired on the train and blew up the track in the ...

Yet Pakistan’s government shows little signs of engaging with the political solution required to end the conflict.

Pakistan Train Hijack: The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), which hijacked the Jaffar Express, heading to Quetta to Peshawar in Balochistan, has released a video of the hijacking, revealing how ...

Hostages freed after a day-long ordeal following a BLA militant attack on a Pakistan train recalled crouching on the floor for hours before their release.

It is the first time that the BLA has hijacked a train. The government has rejected militant-prisoner swap demands in the past. Balochistan, which borders Iran and Afghanistan, has long been a ...

The Balochistan government has imposed a night time travel ban on several national highways following a series ...

Islamabad, Pakistan – Separatist fighters say they have attacked and seized a train in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, taking hundreds of people hostage.

Credit: AP/Anjum Naveed Oil- and mineral-rich Balochistan is Pakistan’s ... reporters in Islamabad that BLA assailants who hijacked the train were in contact with their handlers in Afghanistan.