Old Video Of BLA Leader Threatening China And Pakistan Going Viral Linking To The Recent Jaffar Express Hijack Incident.

A Pakistani passenger train, Jaffar Express, travelling from Quetta to Peshawar with at least 380 passengers on board was hijacked by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) on 11 March 2025. According to media reports, over 300 hostages were rescued and all 33 terrorists were killed by the security forces, but 21 passengers were killed. Against this backdrop, a video allegedly showing a BLA leader accepting responsibility for the Jaffar Express train hijack and threatening China and Pakistan to withdraw immediately from Balochistan went viral on social media. The BLA leader can be heard threatening President Xi Jinping to quit Balochistan or witness retaliation.

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However, as we investigated, we came to know that the claim was misleading. The viral video is old and not related to the recent Jaffar Express train hijack incident. Here’s the fact check.

Fact Check 

We started our investigation by taking some screenshots from the viral video and conducting a reverse image search. This led us to a report published in ETV Bharat on 20 May 2019 that contained an image similar to the screenshots from the viral video. According to the report, “Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) threatened China and Pakistan to withdraw their projects from Balochistan or else they will face retaliation”.

The report read, “Majeed Brigade, an elite unit of the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) on Sunday in a video threatened Chinese President Xi Jinping and Pakistan to withdraw their projects immediately from Balochistan.

“President Xi Jinping, you still have time to quit Balochistan or you will witness a retaliation from Baloch sons and daughters that you will never forget,” a BLA commander said in the video.

“China you came here without our consent supported our enemies, helped Pakistani military in wiping our villages. But now it’s our turn,” he added.

The video was released only eight days after four members of Baloch Liberation Army’s Majeed Brigade stormed a five-star hotel in Gwadar and battled Pakistani commandos for 26 hours.

The deadly attack on May 11 at the luxury hotel in Gwadar has intensified security concerns around Beijing’s major development drive in Pakistan, including a strategic deep-sea port.

In the video, the BLA commander was seen surrounded by heavily armed persons wearing the same camouflage uniform as members of Majeed Brigade, also known as self-sacrificing squad of the BLA, guarded him.

He said, “BLA is telling you that your China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will fail miserably on the Baloch land.”

The commander claimed that a special unit has been formed in Majeed Brigade to particularly “attack Chinese officials and installations in Balochistan”…

Another report published in The Balochistan Post on 19 May 2019 can be read here.

Other similar reports can be read here and here. 

This makes it clear that the viral video is old.

Conclusion 

From our investigation, we can say that the claim is misleading. The viral video of the BLA leader threatening China and Pakistan is not related to the recent Jaffar Express train hijack. The video is from 2019.