Skirmish: Iranians held over cross-border attack

QUETTA: Pakistan on Sunday detained three Iranian border guards after they allegedly crossed the border and shot at a car, killing a Pakistani national, local Pakistani officials said. The Iranians reached Mazan Sar Mashkail, in Washuk district, three kilometres inside Pakistan where they opened fire on a vehicle they were chasing, according to officials in Balochistan. “All three personnel of Iranian border security force were taken into custody”, Saeed Ahmad Jamali, Deputy Commissioner of Washuk district told AFP. A Pakistani national was killed and his brother was wounded by gunshots in the incident, he added.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 2^nd,  2012.