“Anxieties” prevail after the train is kidnapped, Pakistan’s military base is attacked, a few killed

Pakistan leader meets the survivors of fatal kidnapping of trains and commandos who ended the siege

On Thursday, Prime Minister Pakistan praised the country’s armed forces for effective saving 339 passengers after a fatal pull of the train by insurgents in the southwest. In total, 25 people were killed by attackers.

They died are 21 civil hostages and four soldiers, one of whom died during the army saving operations. The authorities did not provide the numbers of the wounded. Officials said that all insurgents were killed.

“Terrorists who attacked the train did not even show respect for the holiness of the month of the month of Ramadan’s post,” said Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in his television remarks in Quetta, the capital of the Balochistan province, where he also met with the survivor of the train attack.

His comments took place a few hours after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan stated that the Afghan Earth was used to organize a train attack, although the forbidden separatist group, Baloch Liberation Army, said.

The assault began on Tuesday and ended on Wednesday, when the soldiers killed all 33 insurgents during the operation, which, according to the army, did not cause further passenger death.

The train went from 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 one in the past. They also attacked Chinese employees, of which thousands are involved in infrastructure projects worth many billion dollars in Baloszistan.

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. The authorities reported that the arrangements regarding the transport of the bodies of victims to their hometown were made, while wounded people received treatment.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Shafqat Ali Khan, told journalists in Islamabad that BLA attackers who kidnapped the train were in contact with their 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 soil use for terrorist groups, such as BLA 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 in order to bring all those who are interested in this attack, including real sponsors of terrorism,” said Khan.

In a 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.” The army did not reveal the details of the interview.

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

According to the Pakistani military statement, “terrorists, after blowing up the railway tracks, took control of the train and kept passengers of hostages, 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 (AP)