Iran ready to provide security near border areas in Pakistan

Iranian government also proposed joint patrolling on the border

Iran's Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said his country has offered to provide security in parts of Pakistan where the government is not able to enforce its writ.

The Iranian minister while talking to media persons in Tehran on Monday claimed that Pakistan had told Iran that the government cannot enforce its writ in some border areas near the Pak-Iran border.

He further said that the Iranian government has also proposed joint patrolling on the border.

Read: Rebels kill eight Iran soldiers on Pakistan border

Earlier on April 7, eight Iranian border guards were been killed in a clash with rebels who had allegedly infiltrated from Pakistan.

Iran’s official news agency, quoting Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan province’s Deputy Governor Mirshekari, said there were clashes between terrorists and Iranian border guards in the township of Negur close to the Iranian port city of Chabahar in the evening.

Mirshekari told Irna that the “terrorists had come from the Pakistani border”, opened fire at the security forces, killing eight border guards and fled back to Pakistan.

Balochistan’s Home Secretary Akbar Hussain Durrani, however, denied the claim, saying that terrorists had not entered from Pakistan as security had already been beefed up along the border area in order to beat back any infiltrators.

This article originally appeared on BBC