QUETTA: Rail link between Quetta and the rest of the country remained cut for several hours as Baloch Freedom Fighters in Dasht area blew up the main tracks on Sunday.

According to railway police, four bombs had been planted to blow up the tracks but only one of them exploded, while bomb disposal squad defused three.

"A three-foot-long piece of the railway line was blown up and several wooden slippers damaged," a railway official told Dawn.

After the blast, all Quetta-bound passenger trains coming from Karachi, Lahore, Rawal-

pindi and Peshawar were stopped at Sibi, Mach and Kolpur railway stations.


The Lahore-bound Chiltan Express could not leave Quetta on schedule.

The bomb disposal squad defused three other bombs found near the blast’s site. “Pakistan Railways officials have repaired the track,” an official said.

A bomb blast was reported outside a security force’s check post on Sunday morning. No serious damage was reported. The local administration has started searching for the culprits.

Another rocket was fired at the Balochistan Constabulary’s check post in Khuzdar district. Baloch militants lobbed the rocket at a check post in Gasleeti Charrai, Khuzdar district. The rocket missed the target and landed a few meters away from the check post.

a rocket in the Killi Kirani area damaged a school building on Sunday night that damaged several classrooms.

BLA (Baloch Liberation Army) accepted the responsibility for the attacks. They have been fighting a war of independence for several years now, and especially targeting army and government installations. Since the beginning of the fifth Army operation in Balochistan, severity, intensity and frequency of the attacks have increased.