The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) kidnapped the Jafar Express train in Balochistan, Pakistan and took 214 Pakistani citizens hostage. The hostages include army, paramilitary forces, police and intelligence agencies. The BLA has claimed that more than 30 Pakistani soldiers have been killed. Now the BLA has given a 48 -hour ultimatum to the Shahbaz Sharif government to release the Baloch prisoners lodged in Pakistani jails. However, the Pakistani Army-Police has not yet made any official comment on the development.
Army’s morale is high: Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif
The Jafar Express train going from Quetta to Peshawar in Balochistan, Pakistan, was abducted by BLA rebels on Tuesday. The army has started a campaign to free the hostages from the clutches of the rebels. Regarding this entire matter, Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif said that despite the difficult areas, our soldiers are working to save the hostages from bravery.
Pakistan train kidnapping: What does Baloch Liberation Army want?
The demands of the BLA are very simple and clear, which Balochs have placed in front of the world many times. He says that he considers Balochistan a separate province, a separate country. They run a separate government. The first and biggest demand of Baloch is that there should be no representative of any Pakistani agency or security agency in Balochistan. Apart from this, Baloch believes that CPEC projects are also going on with China. Their minerals are being exploited through the project. A large number of community members have been displaced due to these projects.
The BLA has been carrying out such attacks on Pakistan for a long time.
Since then, Baloch people have been continuously demanding the removal of these projects from here. This is not a new attack on Pakistan by the BLA, the BLA has been carrying out such attacks on Pakistan for a long time. Sometimes he targets Chinese engineers and sometimes Pakistani diplomats.
