Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General, Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, is addressing a press conference to provide details on the Jaffar Express hijacking and the clearance operation that followed.
Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfaraz Bugti is also attending the conference.
The ordeal began on Tuesday when separatist militants ambushed the Jaffar Express en route from Quetta to Peshawar, blowing up the railway track and attacking the train with rockets.
Security forces stormed the hijacked Jaffar Express on Wednesday, bringing a dramatic end to a 30-hour siege in the rugged Bolan area of Balochistan, killing all 33 terrorists, while successfully rescuing more than 300 passengers.
A day after the operation, the Foreign Office said that there was no doubt the attack was linked to Afghanistan.
Spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan told the media that the Afghan soil had been used against Pakistan and the latest terrorist attack against Jaffar Express near Sibi in Balochistan was also orchestrated and directed by terrorist ring leaders operating from abroad.
“Terrorists were in direct communications with Afghanistan-based planners throughout the incident,” he said. The Foreign Office statement came after the army also officially confirmed the Afghan link to the brazen train hijacking.
The spokesperson said Pakistan had repeatedly asked the interim Afghan government to deny the use of its soil for terrorist groups like BLA for their attacks against Pakistan.
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