Security has been increased over Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, in response to the attack on Jaffar Express in Balochistan.

Following the violent incident, local authorities took rapid measures to strengthen security, especially around sensitive government areas, Express News reported.

The security of police lines in Islamabad has been tightened significantly.

Roads next to the police lines and the IG office have been blocked, and additional police empires have been deployed to ensure security.

Concrete blocks are located outside the police lines and barbed wire has been created as part of the improved safety measures.

Authorities have taken these precautions to protect key areas in the light of the ongoing threat that attackers and the rising security concerns all over the country.

The authorities have made it clear that these measures are temporary pending the solution to the situation and have assured the public that further security will remain in place as needed.

Police work extensively to maintain order and tackle additional threats.

The increased vigilance is a direct answer to the recent Jaffar Express attack that has rattled local authorities and citizens. Further updates on the security situation are expected with the Islamabad authorities on a high alarm for any potential development.

Security forces killed 27 militants and saved over 150 hostages in an approval operation launched after an unknown number of heavily armed terrorists stormed a Peshawar-bound train in Balochistan’s Bolan District, expressed Express News on Wednesday.

Jaffar Express, with over 400 passengers aboard nine bogies, was on the way from Quetta to Peshawar when it was attacked in the Dhadar area Bolan -Pass on Tuesday, according to security sources.

After the attack, the security forces launched an immediate approval operation that led to 27 terrorists’ deaths.

Security sources confirmed that the terrorists responsible for the fair attack on Jaffar Express are in contact with their Mastermind in Afghanistan.

It all started after armed guns forcing the train to stop in a remote, mountainous area of ​​the province on Tuesday afternoon, with the assault immediately demanded by the forbidden Baloch Liberation Army (among others), a terrorist group behind rising violence in the province.

The attackers bombed the railway track before storming aboard the train, the security forces said.