TEHRAN: Iran has strongly condemned a gun attack on Pakistan’s embassy in the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul in which a security guard was critically injured.
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In a statement released here, spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry Nasser Kanaani expressed concern about the continued terror attacks against innocent citizens of Afghanistan and condemned the attack on Pakistan’s embassy, on a school in Afghanistan’s Samangan Province and a Friday raid on the office of Afghanistan’s Islamic Party.
He said the continuation of terrorist attacks will result in destabilizing Afghanistan, which would go against the interests of the people of the country and the wider region.
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Kanaani also stressed the need for regional cooperation to effectively fight terrorism.
It ma be recalled that Pakistan’s embassy in Kabul came under gunfire attack on Friday, in which one security guard was critically injured.
Pakistani officials had termed it an assassination attempt on their country’s chief diplomat to Afghanistan.
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The attack came days after militants who have sought shelter in Afghanistan ended a months-long cease-fire with the Pakistani government, stoking fears of a renewal of violence by the group, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan.
