While local sources told news agency Reuters that at least 11 people were killed and 22 others injured, the BLA said that 90 Pakistani soldiers had died.

The train hijacking in south-western Pakistan represents a major escalation in the region’s long-running insurgency.

Baloch Liberation Army's history, setbacks, resurgence, and impact on Pakistan's security landscape amid political tensions and economic struggles.

The Balochistan Liberation Army claims it killed 6 security forces and seized a Pakistani passenger train carrying about 500 people in a remote, mountainous region.

A group of militants seized a Peshawar-bound train, igniting a 36-hour hostage crisis, but this attack is part of a decades-long insurgency rooted in the Baloch separatist groups' violent struggle for an independent state.

Pakistan's military spokesman said on Friday the death toll in a train hijacking in the country's southwestern mountains had risen to 31 and he repeated accusations that neighbouring India and Afghanistan backed the militants who carried it out.

The BLA said they gave the Pakistan Army 48 hours to exchange prisoners of war, but since they did not heed their warning, they killed the hostages