Pakistan hints at India’s involvement in the Balochistan train hijacking, linking attackers to handlers in Afghanistan allegedly sponsored by India. The incident, implicating the Balochistan ...

The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), a militant separatist group operating in Pakistan's Balochistan province, quickly claimed responsibility for the train hijacking, threatening to kill ...

The hijacking took place in an area ... Image Rescued passengers in Quetta, Pakistan, on Wednesday.Credit...Reuters The train was traveling on Tuesday from Quetta, the capital of Balochistan ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Insurgents attacked a passenger train carrying 440 passengers in restive southwestern Pakistan and killed 21 ...

The Foreign Office statement came after the army also officially confirmed the Afghan link to the brazen train hijacking. The spokesperson said Pakistan had repeatedly asked the interim Afghan ...

Attackers wearing suicide bombs were sitting next to passengers taken hostage after militants took over a train in southwest Pakistan, sources said on Wednesday, complicating rescue efforts a day ...

The attack comes as Pakistan’s government tries to rebuild an anemic economy and lure investment, while struggling to control violence from militants. The train had left Quetta on Tuesday bound ...

Mehboob Hussain was riding the train home on Tuesday when the tracks under the front car exploded. In the depths of central Pakistan's Bolan ... others involved in the hijacking would be brought ...

Pakistan’s prime minister on Thursday commended the country’s armed forces for successfully rescuing 339 passengers after a deadly train hijacking by insurgents in the southwest. A total of 25 ...

After more than a day of fighting with separatist militants who hijacked a train carrying hundreds of passengers, Pakistan’s army said it had brought the insurgent attack to an end, but that 21 ...

(AP video by Khalil Ahmed) Passengers rescued by security forces from a passenger train attacked by insurgents arrive at a railway station in Quetta, Pakistan, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP ...