A mastermind of the Jaffar Express attack and operational commander of the Indian-backed Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) was killed in Afghanistan, security sources said on Saturday. Gul Rehman, aka Ustad Mureed, the senior commander of BLA’s Majeed Brigade, was killed in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, the sources added. According to media reports, Gul Rehman, who was a mastermind of the deadly Jaffar attack in Quetta in March this year, was killed on September 17. The outlawed BLA, during the attack on the Jaffar Express in the second week of March, blew up train tracks and held over 440 passengers hostage in a day-long standoff with security services in a remote mountain pass in the Bolan district.
