TEHRAN (FNA)- Pakistan's charge d'affairs in Tehran Sohail Siddiqui expressed deep sorrow over the Saturday deadly attack on Iranian border guards in the Southeastern province of Sistan and Balushestan bordering Pakistan.


In a meeting on Saturday, Iran's protest note over the deadly attack by a terrorist group was submitted to Siddiqui by a senior Iranian Foreign Ministry official.

The Pakistani diplomat expressed sorrow over the deaths of the Iranian border guards in the shoot-out, saying he would convey Tehran's protest to his respective government.

The Iranian side strongly demanded that Islamabad must act in accordance with the security pact and extradition treaty signed between the two countries, and apprehend the ringleaders as well as members of the terrorist grouping who fled to Pakistan after the deadly incident.

On Saturday, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani in a decree ordered Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli to take a series of actions in the aftermath of terrorist attack which resulted in the death of 14 Iranian border guards.

In his message, President Rouhani extended his condolences to the nation, the law enforcement force's border guards unit and the bereaved families of the 14 slain border guards.

President Rouhani, who chairs the country's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), stressed that his "government is strongly determined to encounter concerted outlawed activities in a bid to protect the borders of the Islamic homeland".

"Hence, I ask the respectable interior minister to immediately set up a special committee in cooperation with the law enforcement police to deal with this development and confront such outlawed activities and inform me of the results very rapidly," he said.

The President also necessitated the foreign minister to take the necessary measures in line with the implementation of Iran's security agreements with Pakistan and inform him of the results immediately.

14 Iranian border guards were killed and 6 more were injured during the terrorist attack in Saravan border region in Southeastern Iran in the early hours of Saturday morning. The terrorists who have reportedly been members of the outlawed Jeish Al-Adl radical Sunni Wahhabi movement fled into Pakistan after the operation in Iran's Southeastern Sistan and Balouchestan province.

Earlier on Saturday, Commander of Iran's Border Guard Force General Hossein Zolfaqari confirmed the death of the 14 border guards, saying, "Eight brave border guards have been martyred in clashes with the outlaws early this morning. Six other border guards were also wounded and died of injuries later."

There has yet been no information about any casualty on the side of the outlaws.

By Fars News Agency

 

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