Claim: A video shows a derailed Jaffar Express, which was targeted and ambushed by Baloch separatist fighters in the Nasirabad district of Balochistan in November 2025.
Fact: The video shows a Jaffar Express targeted in September 2025 when a bomb blast derailed the train in the Mastung district of Balochistan.
On 16 November, an X user that Soch Fact Check has extensively fact-checked in the past, posted a video (archive) purportedly showing a derailed Jaffar Express in Nasirabad. “BREAKING: Baloch fighters ambushed the Jaffar Express in Rabi, Naseerabad, Occupied Balochistan. The train carrying Pakistani troops to the Indian border was hit amid fears of Delhi Blast retaliation. 26 soldiers killed, several injured. Pak Army choppers evacuating casualties,” reads the X post.
The Jaffar Express heading to Peshawar from Quetta narrowly escaped a bomb attack in the Nasirabad district of Balochistan on 16 November, Dawn reported. The same report stated that unidentified attackers planted an explosive device on the railway track that targeted the Peshawar-bound train.
The video above featured two clips side by side: the larger frame on the left, showing a derailed train. On the right is a clip of helicopters flying purportedly in the aftermath of the incident.
Soch Fact Check is verifying both the clips appearing side by side.
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check reverse-searched keyframes from the video and found that the clips — on the left, a derailed train and on the right, helicopters flying over an area — predate the recent attack on the Jaffar Express on 16 November.
The first clip appeared on X in September 2025. An X user posted a similar video (archive) with the description: “In Mastung’s Dasht area, a blast occurred on the track of the Jaffar Express coming from Peshawar to Quetta, causing the train to derail”. The scenes match the ones from the clip in the claim, as shown below:
On the left is the clip from the claim, and on the right is the same video that appeared in September 2025.
X accounts here and here also posted the same footage on 23 September, confirming the incident depicted in the videos predates the attack on 16 November.
Reverse searches also yielded news reports that featured a cover photo matching the video being fact-checked. Dawn’s article “At least 4 injured as blast derails 6 Jaffar Express bogies in Balochistan’s Mastung district” on 23 September published the same image. “A photo of the Jaffar Express after a blast derailed its bogies near the Spezand station in the Dasht tehsil of Balochistan’s Mastung district on Tuesday. — DawnNewsTV”, the caption under the image reads.
Photo published by Dawn on 23 September.
The train was travelling from Peshawar to Quetta, carrying 270 passengers, according to the same Dawn report.
The News International also reported on this incident and carried the same photo on 23 September, confirming the event depicted is old.
Moreover, Soch Fact Check previously debunked the footage on the right which depicts helicopters flying over an area in March 2025. At the time, the footage was linked to a train hijacking carried out by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), a banned separatist militant group, and authorities launched an operation in response to the attack. Our findings showed that the video’s earliest version appeared in January 2025 and was not linked to the operation against the BLA train hijacking.
Soch Fact Check therefore rates the claim as false, as none of the videos are connected to the recent bomb blast targeting the Jaffar Express in the Nasirabad district of Balochistan.
Virality
The X post garnered 152,000 views and was liked 4,300 times.
It also appeared on X here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
On Facebook here.
And on Instagram here and here.
Conclusion: This clip does not show the Jaffar Express targeted in the Nasirabad district of Balochistan by ‘Baloch fighters’ as claimed by some users. Dawn reported that this train narrowly escaped the explosion in November 2025. Furthermore, the clip depicts a derailed Jaffar Express that was targeted by a blast in the Mastung district in September 2025.
Background image in cover photo: Business Recorder
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