Lots of of practice passengers taken hostage by a militant group in Pakistan had been freed in mid-March after a 30-hour siege, throughout which 27 off-duty troopers had been shot. However a video of an explosion in a shifting practice shared 1000’s of instances on social media doesn’t present the assault; it was filmed in 2022 and depicts one other militant assault on the military.
“The Balochistan Liberation Military has hijacked the Jaffar Specific in Pakistan. There have been about 500 passengers on the practice. ISI officers are additionally amongst these passengers. The video of the assault on the practice has now surfaced,” says a March 11, 2025 X post.
The submit includes a clip of a practice passing by way of the hills when it’s rocked by a sudden blast.
Screenshot of the false submit taken March 13, 2025
The Pakistan military freed greater than 340 practice passengers the day after armed militants took some 450 hostage and wounded the motive force in a March 11 assault within the unstable southwestern province of Balochistan (archived hyperlink here, here).
Assaults by a separatist group referred to as the Baloch Liberation Military (BLA), which accuses outsiders of plundering pure assets within the area bordering Afghanistan and Iran, have soared lately, principally concentrating on safety forces and ethnic teams from exterior the province.
Comparable posts have additionally surfaced on X and Facebook, however the video shared on-line was filmed in 2022 and depicts one other militant assault in Balochistan.
A reverse image search on Google discovered the identical video circulated online virtually three years earlier than the practice hijack in Pakistan (archived link).
The caption of an April 15, 2022 X submit sharing the clip suggests the BLA launched footage of an IED assault on a practice carrying Frontier Corps, a group of Pakistani paramilitary forces, close to the town of Sibi in Balochistan.
A keyword search on the messaging platform Telegram surfaced a press release the BLA forwarded January 18, 2022 from Hakkal, the group’s official media channel.
“The Baloch Liberation Military (BLA) freedom fighters focused the Jaffar Specific practice with an IED at Mushkaf space of Bolan close to Sibi on Tuesday, in consequence 4 bogies of Jaffar Specific derailed,” it says.
Screenshot of the the 2022 BLA press launch shared on Telegram
Local media reported in January 2022 that at the very least 5 individuals had been injured in an explosion close to a railway observe within the space (archived hyperlink here, here).
A Google key phrase search surfaced an archived version of the video circulating on-line from Hakkal.
The caption says: “Footage of Baloch Liberation Military assaults towards the Pakistani Navy in Balochistan”. The BLA brand seems within the top-right nook of the clip.
Screenshot comparability of the false submit (L) and the 2022 Hakkal video
Using Google Maps, AFP confirmed the video reveals a blast within the Mushkaf space of Balochistan (archived link).
AFP has fact-checked different misinformation about Pakistan here.
