Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry has confirmed attacks on positions of alleged terrorist groups in the province of Sistan and Balochistan, in southeastern Iran, in which At least seven people have died, four children among them, and after having promised to respond to the Iranian bombings on Tuesday against another terrorist group in the Pakistani region of Balochistan, which borders the aforementioned Iranian province.

“Pakistan this morning carried out a series of highly coordinated and specifically targeted precision military strikes. targeting terrorist hideouts in the Iranian province of Sistan and Balochistan“, the Ministry has published on its website. In addition, it has confirmed the death of “several terrorists” during an Intelligence operation named ‘Marg Bar Sarmachar’, which sought to neutralize the group calling itself ‘Sarmachars’, considered terrorist by Islamabad .

For his part, the deputy governor of Sistan and Balochistan, Alireza Marhamati, reported about an explosion in the vicinity of the city of Saravan at 4:30 a.m. (local time) and in which three women and four children would have died, none of them Iranian citizens, as specified by the Iranian news agency IRNA. Pakistan has justified this bombing by Iran’s “lack of action” in the face of its “serious concerns” about the amount of evidence about the presence of Pakistani terrorists on Iranian territory.

“This action is a manifestation of Pakistan’s unwavering determination to protect and defend its national security against all threats. (…) Pakistan fully respects the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The sole objective of the act of today was the search for one’s own security and national interest“says the Pakistani letter.

Furthermore, he recalled that he considers Iran as “a brother country” that he “respects and admires”despite the fact that a few hours earlier they had shown their total rejection of similar actions by Tehran, and they have even called their ambassador in Iran for consultations and threatened not to let the Iranian diplomatic envoy, who is visiting Islamabad, return to Islamabad. Iran.

On the previous day, Iran’s Foreign Minister, Hosein Amirabdolahian, spoke by phone with his Pakistani counterpart, Jalil Abbas Jilani, to whom he conveyed that “the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Pakistan is very important for Iran.” Iran’s attacks on Pakistani territory came hours after Amirabdolahian to meet Pakistan’s interim prime minister in SwitzerlandAnuar ul Haq Kakar, to address counter-terrorism and other bilateral issues.

In addition, the navies of Iran and Pakistan began on Tuesday joint maneuvers in the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulfincluding the deployment of warships for tactical maneuvers aimed at improving their coordination, as reported by Iranian media.