TEHRAN (FNA)- 10 Pakistani nationals, who tried to infiltrate Iran's territories in the Southeastern Sistan and Balouchestan province, were arrested by the Iranian border guards.The Iranian border guards handed over these people to Pakistani Baluchestanprovinces border guards at Taftan border checkpoint, the Urdu-language Jang newspaper wrote.
The Pakistani newspaper claimed that the Pakistani nationals had entered Iran in an attempt to find their way to other countries, especially the European states, in a bid to find jobs in those countries.
Early in November, Iranian border guards arrested a key member of the Al-Qaeda terrorist group in the bordering areas of the Southeastern Sistan and Balouchestan province, senior border officials announced.
The announcement was made by Commander of Sistan and Balouchestan provinces border guards Hassan Asadollahi.
During the interrogations, "the border guards could realize the identity of the arrested person and find out his evil intentions," the commander said, adding that the terrorist intended to "carry out acts of sabotage in Iran.
Asadollahi added that the captured terrorist has been a member of Al-Qaeda and Taliban groups for 6 years.
He said that the apprehended terrorist who has been captured by the Iranian forces has also confessed that he has been making 5 improvised bombs through two different methods every day for two years.
Asadollahi underlined that the Iranian border guards have further tightened security measures across the countrys borders to block the entrance of the terrorist people and outlaws from outside the country effectively.
His remarks came after 14 Iranian border guards were killed and 6 more were injured during the terrorist attack in Saravan border region in Southeastern Iran.
The terrorists who have reportedly been members of the outlawed Jeish Al-Adl radical Sunni Wahhabi movement affiliated to the terrorist Jundollah group fled into Pakistan after the operation in Iran's Southeastern Sistan and Balouchestan province.
The Jundollah group has built a safe haven in Pakistan and it escaped to this Eastern neighbor of the Islamic Republic each time it staged a terrorist operation in Iran before it was disbanded and its leaders were arrested and executed.
In one of its last operations in Iran, the Pakistani-based Jundollah terrorist group claimed responsibility for December 15, 2010 attack at the Imam Hussein Mosque in Iran's Southeastern port city of Chabahar in Sistan and Balouchestan Province where people were commemorating the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (PBUH), the third Shiite Imam.
At least 38 mourners were killed and more than 89 others, including women and children, were injured in the attack.
The Jundollah group has claimed responsibility for numerous terrorist attacks in Iran. The group has carried out mass murder, armed robbery, kidnapping, acts of sabotage and bombings. They have targeted civilians and government officials as well as all ranks of Iran's military.
In one of the worst cases, the terrorist group killed 22 citizens and abducted 7 more in the Tasouki region on a road linking the southeastern city of Zahedan to another provincial town.
In 2007, Jundollah kidnapped 30 people in the Sistan and Balouchestan province and took them to the neighboring Pakistan.
Jundollah claimed responsibility the same year for an attack on an Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) bus in which 11 IRGC personnel were killed.
In another crime in October 2009, the Pakistan-based terrorist Jundollah group claimed responsibility for a deadly attack in the Sistan and Balouchestan province which killed 42 people among them a group of senior military commanders, including Lieutenant Commander of the IRGC Ground Force Brigadier General Nourali Shoushtari.
By Fars News Agency
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