Violence has crossed an additional level in Pakistan with the attack on a traveler train in Balutchistan, an isolated region on the border of Afghanistan and Iran. The members of the Balutchistan Liberation Army, equipped with automatic weapons and rocket launchers, took hostage, Tuesday, March 11, the Jaffar Express connecting the provincial capital, Quetta, to the city of Peshawar, in the north of the country, to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The train carried 450 passengers, when it was arrested around 1 p.m. by armed men in the Mashkaf tunnel, crossing the Bolan pass about 157 kilometers from Quetta and 21 km from Sibi. They would have destroyed the railway to the explosive to force the train to stop. The driver was killed. The attackers then mounted in the wagons, checking the identity of the passengers, putting aside those from Pendjab, the most populous and richer province in Pakistan, from which the Pakistani political and military elite comes. Balouthes consider themselves exploited, discriminated against, dispossessed by Islamabad and the pendjabis which monopolizes public jobs.
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