Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif embarked on a one-day visit to Quetta on Thursday, according to the Prime Minister’s Office.

Shehbaz will review the law-and-order situation in the province after the terrorist attack on the Jaffar Express near Sibi.

The PM’s visit comes a day after security forces completed an operation to rescue hostages taken by terrorists from train.

According to a statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations, security forces killed all 33 terrorists involved in the attack. The statement said that no hostages were hurt in the incident.

ISPR said that 21 passengers were martyred before the operation began, and four FC soldiers were martyred in total.

Soldiers from the Pakistan Army, Pakistan Air Force, Frontier Constabulary and Special Service Group participated in the operation which was carried out with ‘extreme caution’. The operation had also been hampered by the remoteness of the location and the difficulty of the location.

The train had been attacked near Sibi, around 150 kilometres from the Quetta. Terrorists destroyed part of the rail track, before taking the passengers hostages, including women and children.

The attack was claimed by the banned Baloch Liberation Army. DG ISPR Lt General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said after the operation ended that the ‘rules of the game have been changed’.