A day after threatening Tehran with “serious consequences” for its attack on the Balochi group Jaish al-Adl’s headquarters in its territory, Pakistan launched attacks against “terrorist hideouts” in Iran on Thursday.
“A number of terrorists” were killed during the intelligence-based operation codenamed “Marg Bar Sarmachar”, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said.
Iranian media reported that nine people including four children were killed in the attack.
The Pakistani military says the strikes carried out in Iran on Thursday morning targeted “hideouts used by terrorist organisations namely Balochistan Liberation Army and Balochistan Liberation Front”.
The targets “were successfully struck in an intelligence based operation”, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the military, said in a statement a short while ago.
“With the tragedy unfolding in Gaza, and the horizontal escalation by Hezbollah and the Houthis – both of which are Iran’s regional proxies – for it to now open a front in the east with Pakistan makes no logical, strategic sense,” Haider told Al Jazeera.
