PRICISION MASRKED RESCUE OPERATION OF PAKISTAN ARMY: ALL HIGHJACKER PUT TO DEATH: INDIAN PLOY OF JAFFAR EXPRESS HIGHJACKING FOILED.
Col (R) Hassan Yousuf
Trainer Futurology, Smart Management & IT / Digi Tech at Pakistan Institute of Management
1?? .Worthy audience there have been occasions when an aero plane, train, bus, ship or bus are high jacked & innocent people are put on instant death threat in case some rescue assault is made or the demands are not met by the Govt or the owner. Quetta train Highjack was an strange mishap. Here lot many thing pointed to defame Pakistan, demoralize people of Pakistan, encourage saboteurs & isolate Pakistan diplomatically. So to say:-
2.??? Worthy audience there was lot of hearsay & misinformation on our TV Channels ,it looks as if they were shouting fire alarm but doing no fire fighting. ?The truth is like this ; At 9 a.m. on March 11, 2025, the Jaffar Express passenger train left Quetta, heading towards Peshawar, a journey of approximately 1,600 kilometers (990 miles). Around 450 passengers were on board, including military personnel. Before the attack, BLA insurgents sabotaged the train tracks to ensure that the train would come to a stop in the mountainous region. Approximately 157 kilometers (98 miles) from Quetta and about 21 kilometers (13 miles) west of Sibi, the BLA hijacked the train inside Tunnel No. 8, located between Pehro Kunri and Mushkaf stations. The group detonated explosives on the tracks before opening fire on the train.Only a handful of police and paramilitary personnel escorted the train, with one eyewitness reporting “hundreds” of militants surrounding the tracks. The defenders fought and engaged with the attackers, giving resistance for over an hour and an half until they were depleted of ammunition which resulted in the defenders eventually being defenceless. During the attack, militants with suicide vests boarded the train and separated women and men into groups and checked their identification cards. The attackers did not harm elderly people or women.?Because the hijacking occurred in an isolated mountainous area, the fate of the hostages was not immediately clear. According to Shahid Rind, the Balochistan provincial government spokesman, the surrounding terrain prevented authorities from quickly reaching the area.?Pakistan Railways?temporarily suspended its train operations from Balochistan to?Punjab?and?Sindh?and vice versa in response to the attack.
3?? .Worthy audience the BLA claimed responsibility for the attack, claiming that more than 50 personnel from law enforcement agencies (LEAs), including Pakistan Army soldiers who were reportedly going home on leave, were killed along with 50 hostages.?The hostages were reported to be mostly LEA personnel and non-Baloch civilians.?The militants kept a close watch on the train's security personnel and warned authorities against attempting to rescue the hostages themselves.?Some of the insurgents were equipped with suicide bombs and sat next to the hostages to further prevent an easy rescue by authorities.?The BLA spokesman Jeeyand Baloch offered exchanges between the train hostages and jailed militants.?The BLA released some civilian hostages such as Baluchistan residents, the elderly, women, and children while keeping those who are government workers or military personal on leave to return to their homes in Punjab for?Ramadan.?The same day that the hijacking occurred, BLA issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the Pakistani government in which political prisoners, including Baloch movement affiliates, were to be unconditionally released.?The next day, it threatened to "punish" five hostages for each hour after the ultimatum had expired.?Pakistani officials said they then were yet to communicate with anyone on the train as the area has no internet and mobile network coverage.
4???? . Worthy readers Pakistani security forces launched a large-scale counter-operation at the site.?In their first attacks, they killed 27 insurgents and rescued 104 passengers: 58 men, 31 women, and 15 children.?The security forces later engaged in another gunfight that resulted in them freeing another 155 hostages.?The hostage crisis concluded on 12 March 2025 with 346 total hostages being rescued according to Pakistan's military.?Pakistani officials accused the BLA of using women and children as human shields, which the insurgency group denied.?Following the hijack, Pakistan Railways increased security patrols in all railway stations across the country, restricted passenger access to trains through strict examinations, and subjected transport vehicles to more rigorous inspections. It recognized the understaffed?railway police force?and implemented a plan to hire more personnel in subsequent months
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