©Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian (R) and his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar before a meeting in Tehran on January 15, 2024, (Atta Kenare, AFP)
Pakistan said that the Iranian airstrike killed two children on its soil, while Iran's Nour News reported the strike targeted the Jaish al-Adl group's Pakistani headquarters.
Pakistan denounced on Wednesday the Iranian air strike on its territory, which occurred less than 24 hours after Tehran launched similar attacks in Iraq and Syria against what it called "anti-Iranian terrorist groups".
Pakistan's foreign ministry said in a statement, that the strike resulted in the death of two innocent children while injuring three girls.
It denounced the strike, near the nations' shared border late on Tuesday, as "completely unacceptable", saying it was unprovoked. Islamabad also warned against “serious consequences” to what it defined as a violation of the Pakistanis sovereignty.
Iran offered no immediate official comment but its state-run Nour News agency said the attack destroyed the Pakistan headquarters of the jihadist group Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice).
Formed in 2012, Jaish al-Adl is blacklisted by Iran as a terrorist group and has carried out several attacks on Iranian soil in recent years.
The strike came after Iran launched missile attacks on "spy headquarters" and "terrorist" targets in Syria, and Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region.
Pakistan's official statement did not say where the strike took place, but Pakistani media said it was near Panjgur in southwest Balochistan province, where the two countries share a sparsely populated border of nearly 1,000 kilometers (620 miles).
Katrine Dige Houmøller, with AFP
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