Pakistan on Thursday strongly condemned the terrorist attack from across the Pakistan-Iran border in Balochistan’s Panjgur district, urging the Iranian authorities to investigate the cross-border terrorist attack and bring the perpetrators to task.
Foreign Office (FO) Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, at her weekly news briefing in Islamabad on Thursday, said the terrorists used Iranian soil to target a convoy of security forces patrolling along the Pakistan-Iran border.
Baloch added that communication channels are active, and Pakistan has shared its concerns regarding the attack with the Iranian authorities.
According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) , militants used Iranian soil to “target a convoy of security forces patrolling along the border” yesterday. Following the attack, Iran had been asked to hunt down the terrorists on their side, the ISPR had said.
She said: “We strongly commit that our territory will not be used for undertaking cross-border attacks in Iran and we expect the same from Iran.”
Moreover, the FO spokesperson also said that Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will visit Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on the January 25 to attend the 26th meeting of the Council of Ministers of Economic Cooperation Organization.
