“The Jaffar Express, carrying around 400 passengers in nine coaches, was travelling from Quetta to Peshawar when militants derailed it using explosives and hijacked it. Pakistani security forces eventually rescued 190 passengers, killing 30 militants as they continued battling insurgents for a second day," reports Firstpost.

That the hijacking of the train is now seen as the biggest attack carried out by Baloch revolutionaries in Pakistan, and is viewed as a serious concern for Beijing, is now out in the open as the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has carried out several attacks on Chinese workers in the region. Their objective: to reclaim the independent state of Balochistan.

Picture this: a rugged land where the sun sears the earth, where whispers of a lost kingdom still dance on the breeze. That’s Balochistan, home to the Khanate of........

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