An explosion on the railway track in Jacobabad has derailed five coaches of the Jaffar Express.

 

According to Railways Police, five coaches of the train derailed following the explosion near Jacobabad’s vegetable market.

 

No casualties have so far been reported, police said, adding that operations had however been suspended since after the explosion.

 

Jacobabad Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Saddam Hussein Khaskhaili said that bomb disposal squad was determining the nature of the explosion and an investigation into the incident was underway.

 

It merits a mention that while the nature of the explosion remained unknown by the time this report was filed, the incident comes months after armed men attacked Jaffar Express in Balochistan.

 

In March 2025, a group of terrorists launched an attack on a train en route to Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), from Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, carrying over 400 passengers. Following the assault, the terrorists took passengers hostage.

 

In a statement, the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that intelligence reports have unequivocally confirmed that the attack was orchestrated and directed by terrorist ringleaders operating from Afghanistan, who remained in direct communication with the attackers throughout the incident.

 

Director General (DG) ISPR Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, while speaking to a private media channel minutes after the completion of the rescue operation, claimed that security forces had eliminated all 33 Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) terrorists who had hijacked the Jaffar Express. However, 21 passengers were martyred by the terrorists before the clearance operation commenced, he said.

 

The military’s media wing spokesperson detailed that the army, air force, Frontier Corps (FC), and Special Services Group had participated in the operation and successfully recovered the hostages.