MOUSHUMI RAHMAN MOU
Pakistan has launched a devastating military offensive against Iran harboring dissident militants, the latest incident across their common border that has fueled tensions between the two neighbors.
The new strikes mean both Pakistan and Iran have now taken extraordinary steps to go after assailants on each other's soil this week amid escalating clashes in the Middle East and wider locales.
Islamabad said on Thursday that its forces had sent "profoundly planned and clearly targeted precision military strikes" into Iran's southeastern Sistan and Balochistan regions as part of an operation it called "Marg Bar Sarmacher" — an expression that independently "explains" the deaths of guerrilla fighters. "
It said the hideouts designated in the activity were used by the Balochistan Freedom Armed Forces (BLA) and the Balochistan Freedom Front (BLF), two militant groups fighting for more significant local independence.
In a different explanation on Thursday, the BLF said it had no shelter in Iran and that no BLF fighters were killed in the late attack. The BLA has yet to comment on Pakistan's attack on Iranian territory.
Pakistan's intelligence service added that "a number" of terrorists were killed during the operation.
Tehran requested "quick clarification" from Pakistan on the attack, Iran's state-run Tasnim news agency reported, citing an official.
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Alireza Marhamati, representative of the Sistan and Baluchistan region, said nine people were killed in the attack, including three women and four youths, Iran's state news agency IRNA reported.
At 4:30 a.m. a line explosion was heard in the city, a few rockets exploded in the city,” Marhamati said.
The agency's chief representative said another explosion occurred near the city of Saravan, but there were no casualties from that impact.
Both Pakistan and Iran have long battled insurgents in the restive Baloch district along their 900-kilometer (560-mile) line, but the latest episode marks a significant escalation between the two neighboring powers and comes as a local threat to the east, centered on Israel. Continued conflict in Gaza.
Pakistan said on Thursday that it had raised concerns with Iran about the "sanctuary and safe haven" of Pakistani dissidents living inside Iran, referred to as Sarmachar, and had shared evidence of their presence and practices. aggressive
"Yet, given the absence of action on our grave concerns, these so-called forces continue to shed the blood of innocent Pakistanis without risk of punishment. Today's action was taken in view of the credible insights into fear-based oppressive practices of large scope," the unidentified service of Pakistan said. said
Pakistan said it "fully considers the power and territorial honor of the Islamic Republic of Iran" and that "the sole aim of the current protests was to look after Pakistan's own security and public interests which are fundamental and cannot be compromised."
News source-CNN
