Balochistan unrest: Police foil bid to blow up train

QUETTA: Police officials on Sunday foiled a terrorist bid to detonate explosives in the Quetta-Chaman passenger train at the Chaman railway station in Qila Abdullah district.  According to police officials, while searching the train, officials recovered 20 kg of explosives stashed away in a plastic bag in one of the compartments.  The train was bound to depart for Quetta after an hour. “It could have led to a huge disaster if the terrorist plan had succeeded,” asserted an official.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 7^th, 2012.