Pakistan leader meets survivors

Quetta, Pakistan (AP) – Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif was in a quiet province from the south -western Baloszistan on Thursday to meet with the survivors of the train, and commandos who saved over 300 passengers from the insurgents who killed 21 civilian and four soldiers.

In recent months, the Army of Liberation of Balochs, forbidden group for many fatal attacks, claimed that the responsibility for the attack began on Tuesday and ended on Wednesday, when the soldiers killed all 33 insurgents during operations, which according to the army did not lead to further passenger death.

The train was traveling from the capital of Belżistan, Quetta, to the northern city of Peszawar, when the insurgents blew up the track, forcing nine coaches and the Jafer Express train engine to partly stop in the tunnel.

BLA regularly attacks Pakistani security forces and attacked trains, but he was never able to kidnap any train in the past. They also attacked people from outside, such as Chinese workers, of whom thousands are involved in infrastructure designs worth many billion dollars in Balugżistan.

Belochistan rich in oil and minerals is the largest and least populated province in Pakistan. Members of the Baloch ethnic minority claim that they are facing discrimination and exploitation by the central government.

Among the strict security of Sharif and members of his office, they were accepted by senior state officials after arriving at the airport in Quetta, said his office. He did not provide any further details. The authorities stated that the arrangements regarding the transport of the bodies of victims to their hometown were made, and the injured people received treatment.

Shafqat Ali Khan, spokesman for Pakistan of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told reporters in Islamabad that BLA attackers, who kidnapped the train, were in contact with employees in Afghanistan.

“Our security forces have successfully eliminated all 33 terrorists, including soreslets, while saving hostages,” he said.

Khan said that the attackers “in direct communication with planners from Afghanistan throughout the incident”, and Pakistan repeatedly asked Kabul to “refuse to use soil to terrorist groups for their attacks on Pakistan.”

“We call Afghanistan to maintain perpetrators, organizers, financiers, this reprehensible act of responsible terrorism and cooperation with the Pakistan government to bring this attack to all attacks, including real sponsors of terrorism,” said Khan.

In the statement, the army stated that “confirmed the interview” overnight, indicating that the assault was “organized and directed by the terrorist leaders of the Rings operating from Afghanistan, who were in direct communication with terrorists during this incident.”

In Kabul Abdul Qahar Balkhi, a spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, rejected Pakistani allegations, saying: “We are saddened by the loss of the lives of the innocent in this incident.”

However, the army in a statement called the government of the Afghan Taliban to maintain duties and deny the use of soil for terrorist activities against Pakistan.

According to the military statement, “terrorists, after blowing up the railway tracks, took control of the train and kept hostage passengers, including women, children and the elderly, using them as human shields.”

Many survivors said that the attackers opened fire in the train windows, entered cars and killed or hurt people before taking their hostages.

According to military spokesman General Gen. Ahmad Sharif, three soldiers who guarded the railway tracks.

Separately, Pakistani security was killed by 10 fighters after noticing them near a military institution in South Waziristan, a district in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkwa bordering Afghanistan, officials gave officials.

The authorities reported that they were killed by members of Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehrik-E-Taliban Pakistan or TTT. The group is an ally of the Taliban in Afghanistan and has been emboldened since the Afghan Taliban took power there in 2021.