Following the Jaffar Express train hijacking by Baloch Rebel groups, Pakistan’s Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General, Lt General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, said that terrorists along with their enablers and facilitators,

The Jaffar Express, carrying 440 passengers in nine coaches, was travelling from Quetta to Peshawar when members of the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) derailed it using explosives and hijacked it near the mountainous terrain of Gudalar and Piru Kunri,

Pakistan's security forces rescued 104 hostages after an armed attack on the Jaffar Express in Balochistan's Bolan Pass. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility and threatened to execute hostages if military operations continued.