Pakistan on Wednesday recalled its ambassador to Iran and suspended all deliberate high-level bilateral visits.
India on Wednesday reacted to Iran’s current missile strike on Pakistan soil. The Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) stated it understands actions that international locations take of 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.
“As far as India is worried, we’ve an uncompromising place of zero tolerance in direction of terrorism. We perceive actions that international locations take of their self defence,” Jaiswal stated. Pakistan on Wednesday recalled its ambassador to Iran and suspended all deliberate high-level bilateral visits. In Islamabad, Pakistan Overseas Workplace spokesperson Mumtaz Baloch stated that the Iranian ambassador to Pakistan who’s presently visiting Iran could not return to Islamabad in the meanwhile. Pakistan additionally reserves the best 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 within 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)
