ISLAMABAD: In the early hours of Wednesday, the Foreign Office released a statement in which it stated that Pakistan had threatened Iran with dire repercussions for violating its airspace, which resulted in the deaths of two Pakistanis and injury to others.
Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch issued a statement saying, “Pakistan strongly condemns the unprovoked violation of its airspace by Iran which resulted in the death of two innocent children while injuring three girls.”
Iranian state television reported that it had destroyed the terrorist organization’s headquarters and used drones and missiles to target its bases in Pakistan.
Iranian official media refers to the targeted location in Pakistan as “Green Mountain”.
The spokeswoman for the foreign office described this as a total violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty.
Baloch stated that the fact that this illegal deed has occurred in spite of Pakistan and Iran having many communication lines makes it much more worrisome.
The spokesperson stated, “Pakistan has already lodged its strong protest with the concerned senior official in the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran.”
She added that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned the Iranian Charge d’affaires to express a firm denunciation of this flagrant betrayal of Pakistan’s sovereignty and to assure them that Iran will bear full responsibility for the fallout.
Pakistan has consistently maintained that terrorism poses a threat to all of the region’s nations and calls for concerted response. Such unilateral actions can substantially damage bilateral relations and are not consistent with decent neighborly relations.
Separately, state media reported that earlier in the day, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched missile attacks on a number of “terrorist” sites in Syria and in the autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq.
The official IRNA news agency stated, citing a statement by the IRGC, that the assaults damaged “a spy headquarters” and a “gathering of anti-Iranian terrorist groups” in Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.
The attack resulted in four fatalities and six injuries, according to the Kurdistan Security Council of Iraq.
The US denounced the attacks as “reckless” and issued a warning that they threaten stability.
“We reject Iran’s careless missile attacks, which jeopardize Iraq’s stability,” a spokeswoman for the US State Department, Matthew Miller, stated.
Iraq retorted that it has summoned its ambassador from Tehran for talks.
