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Iran and Pakistan announced Monday that their ambassadors would resume their duties after the two countries agreed to de-escalate tensions following an exchange of deadly strikes last week.
“It has been mutually agreed that the ambassadors of both countries may return to their respective posts by January 26,” said a joint statement by the foreign ministries in Tehran and Islamabad.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian is also due to visit Pakistan on January 29 following an invitation from his Pakistani counterpart Jalil Abbas Jilani, the statement said.
The two countries would decide the future course of action and work on a new mechanism to prevent the recurrence of events of the last week.
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Joint Press Statement of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the Islamic Republic of Iran
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Pakistan and Iran have been quietly working to evolve a new mechanism preventing the recurrence of events of the last week that for a moment jeopardise their longstanding relationship.
Last week’s rare military actions in the porous border region of Baluchistan — split between the two nations — had stoked regional tensions already inflamed by the Israel-Hamas war.
Sistan-Baluchistan is one of the few mainly Sunni Muslim provinces in Shiite-dominated Iran.
It has seen persistent unrest involving cross-border drug-smuggling gangs and rebels from the Baluchi ethnic minority, as well as jihadists.
