ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani military said on Saturday that four of its soldiers were killed in a cross-border attack from Iranian soil.
The attack on border patrol soldiers took place in Kech district in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province neighboring Iran.
“On 1 April 2023, a group of terrorists operating from Iranian side attacked a routine border patrol of Pakistani security forces,” the military said in a statement, adding that four soldiers were critically injured and died.
“Necessary contact with Iranian side is being made for effective action against terrorists on the Iranian side and to prevent such incidents in future.”
Pakistan’s interior minister Rana Sanaullah condemned the attack and paid tribute to the slain soldiers.
“The entire nation is united in the fight against terrorism,” he said in a statement. “We will not rest until we eradicate this evil.”
Pakistan and Iran share a 960-km-long border that begins at the Koh-i-Malik Salih mountain and ends at Gwadar Bay in the Gulf of Oman.
Both Pakistan and Iran have repeatedly accused each other of allowing militants to cross their shared frontier and carry out attacks. Both deny state complicity.
