Several passengers were injured when six carriages of the Jaffar Express derailed in Mastung’s Dasht area of restive Balochistan province on September 23 following an explosion on the railway track, according to a Geo TV report. Muhammad Kashif, Pakistan Railways’ Quetta division public relations officer, told Dawn newspaper that a railway track was blown up with explosives in the town of Spezand, derailing six bogies. In June, five bogies of Jaffar Express had derailed after a blast took place on a railway track near Jacobabad. On March 11 this year, the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), a banned organisation fighting for an independent Balochistan blew up train tracks and assaulted the Jaffar Express. A July 28 derailment of the Jaffar Express train in Sindh’s Sukkur was initially attributed to an explosion — even by government-run media — but the Ministry of Railways later said a technical fault was the cause.