Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif visits Quetta as Balokh rebels say

Last update:March 13, 2025, 19:53 Ist

Prime Minister Pakistan Sharif stated that the determination of the nation would not be shaken because the attraction was fascinated when the rebels declared that they continued to act against the state.

People gather nearby with ambulance that transports the bodies of people who were killed after the train who attacked separatist militants in Bolan, during a funeral in Quett, Pakistan. (Image: Reuters)

Pakistana Shehbaz Prime Minister Charif visited Beludzhistan province on Thursday, when dozens of people were rescued from a train stolen by separatist militants, arrived in Quetta after the security forces killed 33 attackers to finish their daily confrontation.

Sharif’s visit came even as a rebel group, the Balokh Liberation Army (Blaw), which claimed responsibility for the attack, denied the military assertion that the confrontation was over, saying that the “battle” was ongoing and still has hostages.

The militants blew up the railway tracks and opened fire on the Jaffar express when he made his way to Peshawar in the province of Hiber-Pachtunc, the capital is rich in Beludzhistan minerals, on Tuesday.

The militants have been fighting for decades of the uprising to win the secession of the southwestern province, live large projects under the leadership of China, such as port and gold and copper mine.

In total, 21 hostages and four security troops were killed in the confrontation, according to the military, but BLA is the largest of Beludzhistan’s armed ethnic groups, fighting the government, – said 50 hostages.

Sharif is on a daily visit to Quetta, during which he will get acquainted with the situation with security in the region, the government said.

He condemned the attack on X on Wednesday, adding: “Such cowardly actions will not shake Pakistan’s determination to peace.”

The authorities said that 25 bodies were delivered to the local railway station, from where they would be taken to Quetta in ambulances.

Black said that Pakistan’s people “claimed” that they were saved, in fact they were released by the group itself.

“Now that the state has rejected the hostages to die, it is also responsible for their death,” said the Secretary of the group Jiaand Balokh in a statement on Thursday.

Blaa threatened to start hostage murder if the authorities missed the 48-hour period of release of Balok’s political prisoners, activists and missing persons, which he stated that they had been stolen by the military.

Survived on the water, for hours leaning on the floor, say hostages

Men, armed with missile units, guns and other weapons, stormed the train on Tuesday and started shooting people, said Arslan Yusaf, one of several rescued hostages who came to Ketta on Thursday, accompanied the security forces.

The militants grouped passengers on the basis of their region of origin, added Yusaf.

“Sometimes they took the soldiers … and executed them,” he said, referring to passengers from the Pakistani army and other security forces who went on vacation.

“Other times they focused on specific persons. If they had a hurt against someone, they shot him in place. “

The hostages survived only on the water during the time they were carried out, – said Muhammad Tanwere, another passenger.

Reuters video shows showed rescued hostages that receive first aid at the Quetta railway station.

“Terrorists broke the train, breaking the windows, but they mistakenly believed that we were dead,” said the driver of the Amjad train, who plunged on the engine floor for cover when the militants opened fire and lay there for about 27 hours to survive.

(This story was not edited by News18 staff and published from the Syndicized Channel of Information Agency – Reits)

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