The Latest Breaking News from Quetta

IN FOCUS: Jaffar Express, a train that connects the insurgency-hit province of Balochistan with the rest of Pakistan, has been repeatedly targeted, Namita Singh reports

Pakistani officials say militants set off a powerful car bomb outside the headquarters of the country's paramilitary security force in the southwestern city of Quetta, killing at least eight people and wounding several others

The blast occurred in the Barech Market area on Quetta’s Double Road in Balochistan. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Pakistan’s army has freed hundreds of hostages from a passenger train that was seized by armed militants in the south-western province of Balochistan on Tuesday, March 11. A number of those on board were military officials and police personnel travelling from Balochistan’s capital, Quetta, to Peshawar further north.

Security forces held off from full-out battles as militants wearing suicide vests loaded with explosives barricaded themselves inside the train with hostages in Balochistan

Dozens of separatist Baloch fighters attacked the Jaffar Express passenger train in Pakistan’s Balochistan province.

Pakistan’s military says it has rescued 346 passengers, but 28 people are dead, apart from 33 attackers.

The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the assault, which took place on Tuesday as the Jaffar Express, traveling from Quetta to Peshawar, was attacked.