Iranian Overseas Minister to go to Pakistan on Jan 29 amid tensions

Iran’s Overseas Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, will go to Pakistan subsequent week amid tensions between the 2 nations. This comes after the neighbours exchanged missile strikes final week, focusing on what they mentioned had been militant targets.

Amir-Abdollahian and his Pakistani counterpart Jalil Abbas Jilani held a cellphone dialog right this moment, and the international locations have additionally agreed to ship their envoys again to one another’s capitals.

In a joint press assertion, Pakistan and Iran mentioned, “Following the phone dialog between the Overseas Ministers of Pakistan and the Islamic Republic of Iran, it has been mutually agreed that ambassadors of each international locations might return to their respective posts by 26 January 2024.”

On the invitation of Overseas Minister Jilani, the Overseas Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, will undertake a go to to Pakistan on 29 January 2024, Islamabad mentioned.

The connection between Pakistan and Iran has been strained in latest weeks because of a sequence of tit-for-tat navy strikes carried out on one another’s territories. Islamabad mentioned it hit bases of the separatist Baloch Liberation Entrance and Baloch Liberation Military, whereas Tehran mentioned its missiles struck militants from the Jaish al Adl (JAA) group. Iran mentioned the strikes in a border village on its territory killed 9 folks, together with 4 youngsters. Pakistan mentioned the Iranian assault had killed two youngsters.

The militant teams function in an space that features Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan and Iran’s southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan province.

Pakistan had recalled its ambassador to Tehran and had not allowed the Iranian envoy to return to Islamabad, in addition to cancelling all high-level diplomatic and commerce engagements.

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