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Four Iran border guards killed in clash on Pakistan frontier

The fighting occurred in the Rask region in the southwestern Sistan-Balochistan province, Iranian media said

Afp July 06, 2016

File photo of Iranian border guard. PHOTO: AFP

TEHRAN: Four Iranian border guards were killed on Wednesday in a clash with armed rebels near the Pakistani border, Iranian media reported.

The fighting occurred in the Rask region in the southwestern Sistan-Balochistan province, Iranian media said without giving further details.

Last month, state television reported the death of a police officer and five "terrorists", said to be members of the Jaish al-Adl group, in the nearby Khash region.

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Jaish al-Adl is thought to be behind a number of attacks in Sistan-Balochistan in recent years, and Tehran accuses it of ties to Pakistan-based Al Qaeda cells.

Ninety per cent of Iran's population is Shia, but the country has significant Sunni populations in its restive border regions, notably Kurdistan in the northeast, and Sistan-Balochistan and Khuzistan in the southwest.

There has been a recent uptick in violence in Iranian Kurdistan, with local media reporting the death of 33 rebels and six members of security forces since mid-June.

COMMENTS (32)

saqib butt | 8 years ago | Reply The Iranians were given a free license to walk in & kill by your axed president zardari & they think they now have the right to walk in like in Syria. They have been bombing Panjgur & other places & killed a no FCs. Need to put them their place by a few hits & supporting the great Iranian people free themselves from despotic rulers

Saad | 8 years ago | Reply @Ash Kumar: We demand hanging of Khulbushan Yadav asap

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PAK | 8 years ago | Reply Efforts of our enemy country have increased... its time to publicly apply capital punishment to RAW agents caught in Pakistan.. start with Khulbushan Yadav !!

HinduRAW | 8 years ago | Reply @Deporting Pakistanis: Worry about building toilets not about pakistanis

Ash Kumar | 8 years ago | Reply @Raisani- That money would be peanuts for India but it’s a very significant amount for Pakistan. Besides, we’ve taken enough Hindu refugees from your country. For free. And if you think that proud Afghans are puppets, then you need to rethink. The world around you isn’t a problem. You are. How many wake up calls do you need?

Deporting Pakistanis | 8 years ago | Reply @Deport Afghan: world is already deporting Pakistanis in lots and Ch. Nisar is trying his best to avoid them.

Raisani | 8 years ago | Reply @Ash Kumar: Then it's a good chance for India to get that revenue from Pakistan. So are you ready to welcome Afghan Refugees or you will only keep using them like puppets?

Ash Kumar | 8 years ago | Reply To all those people saying that they have done a favour to the Afghan refuges, please remember that your govt takes a HUGE amount from the UN in exchange for the refuges present in Pakistan. So you aren't doing them a 'favour'. You're just using them as a source of income.

RAWisWAR | 8 years ago | Reply @Hakim Afghani: Deport Afghanis please

RAWisWAR | 8 years ago | Reply @Hakim Afghani: Can we talk about refugees first ??!!

ShameShame | 8 years ago | Reply I really long for that day when Pakistan becomes free from this virus called Afghan Refugees

EEE | 8 years ago | Reply Request our army to take against RAW agents operating under disguise in Balochistan.. Meanwhile its time for judiciary to give capital punishment to Kulbushan Yadav and set an example for enemy agents

EatCow | 8 years ago | Reply @khuri: You forgot RAW and Kulbushan yadav

Deport Afghan | 8 years ago | Reply We demand deportation of all afghan refugees either to India or Afghanistan

afghani | 8 years ago | Reply @khuri: Totally agree with you. It's the Indian who are trying to create fitna on this board as they usually do. Full time job for them.

Another afghani | 8 years ago | Reply @Hakim Afghani: It's the government of Afghanistan who is hostile not the people of Afghanistan. We have a long history with Pashtun brothers and neither Indians nor people like you are going to shake this trust.

Focus | 8 years ago | Reply Indian trolls apparently get disoriented when they see the word "Pakistan". This happened within the borders of Iran and not from Pakistan.

khuri | 8 years ago | Reply I am surprised to read the comments of ignorant people, did it say anywhere, Pakistan is involved in the killing of Border guards? These are usually smugglers or the people about whom Adil Uddin has said. Correct yourself people.

Mushtaq Ahmad | 8 years ago | Reply I fail to see why some commentators are impliedly trying to implicate Pakistan in the affair as if it was the pepetrator. Pakistan treats Iran as a brotherly neighbour. Given the ethnic and religious makeup of this border region and considering the locale, the incident is clearly a phenomenon in which Pakistan has no role.

KP | 8 years ago | Reply @Hakim Afghani: Good riddance.

Arsalan | 8 years ago | Reply Shouldn't it be kurdistan in the northwest and sistan in the southeast?

Naim Khan | 8 years ago | Reply @Hakim Afghani: Sir we don't need Afghanies!

Ali | 8 years ago | Reply The region has been plagued to remain underdeveloped, deprived and intangled with each other to achieve ulterior motives. All need to unit think and act as shoulder to each other.

abood | 8 years ago | Reply @hakim afghani.these attacks are done by terrorist such as BLA and jaish groups funded by indians and afghans. Secondly who cares if afghans have gone.dear we are very happy that you are gone and kindly take the 3 milliin refugees from our country.i would say man up stop begging pakistan to help your refugees.where is the so called afghan pride of helping your brother or is the pride busy finding young guys for the satisfaction of your sisi army men.

Ghayoor Abbas | 8 years ago | Reply Baloch must be given an eagle's eye on their state affairs at kurdistann

Shuaib | 8 years ago | Reply Pakistan needs to find and extradite these criminals.

Tiptoe | 8 years ago | Reply Let's not forget that the ethnics were given false dream if independence by Kissinger

Adil Uddin | 8 years ago | Reply Those rebels in Sistan Balochistan have connections with BLA too . Kindly check maps of Azaad Balochistan by Baloch rebels , it includes not just province of Balochistan in Pakistan but Sistan and I guess Baloch dominated areas of southern Afghanistan too. And it happened beside the border not into Pakistani territory . Somehow Saudi-Iran proxy war must end in the region. Pak-Iran relations were stable until Khomeini emerged in Iran and Saudi favourite Zia emerged in Pakistan. On the western front Iran is reported to have been suppressing Kurds too.....and Kurds are fighting Iran plus Iraq , Turkey and Syria to form their own country . Series of rivalries all the way from Turkey to Pakistan.

Hakim Afghani | 8 years ago | Reply Pakistan is losing all his neighbors one by one. India - Gone. Afghanistan - Gone. Iran - Gone. Left only China who is using Pakistan as backyard, exporting their cheap products and not accepting any export from Pakistan because China do not have import policy, just export.

sk | 8 years ago | Reply When Pakistan publicly acknowledges Iranian as friends then why fights that too killing each other?

kaleemullah | 8 years ago | Reply Playing double game with Iran is like playing with fire. Pakistan should be careful.

Sami Khan | 8 years ago | Reply In the past Iranians killed Pakistanis along the border but this time Iranians got killed. This should not happen. Pakistan and Iran must improve relationships. Its critical

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