Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 24
By Umid Niayesh - Trend:
Iran's border police commander of Sistan and Baluchestan Province denies any fire exchange with Pakistani forces on the border.
Raham Bakhsh Habibi responding to news published in the Pakistani media about fire exchange on the borders, told Fars News Agency on Oct.24 that not any army confrontation has happened between Iran and Pakistan's forces.
Pakistani media outlets reported on Oct.24 that Iranian forces fired on its country's army forces on Thursday.
"Iranian border guards fired four mortars at 4:00am on Friday which landed and exploded in open areas in Mashkail," Assistant Commissioner Mashkail Asghar Syapad told The Express Tribune.
In retaliation, Pakistani security forces fired two mortar shells towards the Iranian border, sources said. However, there have been no reports of mortar attacks in Iran.
This is the fourth occasion that Iranian border guards have violated the Pakistani border over the past one week.
Pakistan announced on Oct.17 that Iranian forces killed one Pakistani officer and injured four other border guards. On the other hand, the top commander of Sistan and Baluchestan Province's border guards Raham Bakhsh Habibi said on Oct.17 that two Iranian police were killed during a gun clash with an armed group. Four other Iranian armed forces personnel were killed in this region in early October.