Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad on Wednesday to discuss border issues, energy, and greater cooperation on regional matters such as the conflicts in Yemen and Afghanistan. One of the more urgent topics in the meeting was the October 16 abduction of 14 Iranian security personnel from a post on the Pakistani border. The victims included several members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), loyal to the theocratic side of Iran’s government. A group of Sunni Muslim separatists called Jaish al-Adl (“Army of Justice”) claimed responsibility for the abduction, describing it as retaliation for Shiite-dominated Iran’s oppression of Sunnis. The IRGC announced it had killed the number two leader of Jaish al-Adl two weeks before the abduction. The IRGC has placed a high priority on recovering the captives and demanded Pakistan do more to “confront these terrorist groups that are supported by some regional states,” as a statement issued by the IRGC shortly after the kidnapping said. The Iranians have floated the idea of attacking Sunni militia bases inside Pakistan if Islamabad does not deal with the separatists. Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi responded by blaming the Jaish al-Adl… Read full this story
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