Iran has summoned the Pakistani chargé d’affaires in the capital Tehran in protest at an attack on the southeastern Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan.
JK News Today
Tehran, Jan. 18: The Pakistani diplomat was summoned to the ministry on Thursday in the absence of the country’s ambassador to Tehran for an explanation regarding several explosions in different areas around the city of Saravan in Sistan and Baluchestan province, close to the border with Pakistan earlier in the day.
Iranian Foreign Minister Nasser Kan’ani later condemned the attack and confirmed that the Pakistani chargé d’affaires had been summoned by the ministry to convey Tehran’s protest to Islamabad and provide an explanation about the attack.
Deputy governor of the province Alireza Marhamati said nine non-Iranian nationals, including two men, three women and four children, were killed in the attack.
He added that Iranian security officials are investigating the issue.
Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi confirmed the figures later in the day.
Meanwhile, an informed source strongly condemned the attack and said Iran has demanded Pakistan’s “immediate explanation” about the attack.
In a press release on Thursday, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry confirmed that the country undertook “a series of highly coordinated and specifically targeted precision military strikes against terrorist hideouts” in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan province.
