{"id":70089,"date":"2025-03-12T22:18:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/12\/up-to-200-still-held-hostage-amid-train-hijack-standoff-in-pakistan"},"modified":"2025-03-13T04:41:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T19:41:44","slug":"pakistan-military-fights-on-in-operation-to-free-hundreds-of-hostages-on-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70089","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan operation to free hostages after train hijacking ends with dozens killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security services claim to have rescued about 190 people being held by Baloch Liberation Army in remote area<\/p>\n<p>An operation to rescue hundreds of people taken hostage when a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/11\/militants-hold-train-passengers-hostage-in-balochistan-province-pakistan\">train was hijacked<\/a> by a separatist militant group in remote south-west Pakistan has ended with dozens killed in the onslaught, a spokesperson for the army has said.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s security services claimed late on Wednesday to have rescued about 190 people who were being held captive after militants from the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) blew up a railway line and launched an attack on the Jaffar Express train.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/12\/up-to-200-still-held-hostage-amid-train-hijack-standoff-in-pakistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security services claim to have rescued about 190 people being held by Baloch Liberation Army in remote areaAn operation to rescue hundreds of people taken hostage when a train was hijacked by a separatist militant group in remote south-west Pakistan h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70092,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70089\/revisions\/70092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}