Pakistan on Wednesday recalled its ambassador to Iran and suspended all deliberate high-level bilateral visits.
India on Wednesday reacted to Iran’s latest missile strike on Pakistan soil. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) stated it understands actions that nations take in their self-defence. MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stated that it’s a matter between Iran and Pakistan, and asserted that India has ‘an uncompromising’ place of ‘zero tolerance’ in direction of terrorism. The spokesperson was responding to media queries on the Iranian missile strike in Pakistan on Tuesday concentrating on terror bases.
“So far as India is concerned, we have an uncompromising position of zero tolerance towards terrorism. We understand actions that countries take in their self defence,” Jaiswal stated. Pakistan on Wednesday recalled its ambassador to Iran and suspended all deliberate high-level bilateral visits. In Islamabad, Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Baloch stated that the Iranian ambassador to Pakistan who’s at present visiting Iran could not return to Islamabad in the interim. Pakistan additionally reserves the correct to retaliate to the provocation by Iran, she stated.
Our response to media queries concerning Iran’s air strikes in Pakistan:https://t.co/45NAxXTpkG pic.twitter.com/1P4Csj5Ftb
— Randhir Jaiswal (@MEAIndia) January 17, 2024
Tehran launched an unprecedented missile and drone strikes on what it stated have been directed on the bases of a terrorist group in the restive Balochistan province. Two bases of the Sunni Baloch militant group ‘Jaish al-Adl’ in Pakistan’s unruly Balochistan province have been focused by missiles and drones on Tuesday, Iranian state media reported.
(With inputs from PTI)
