Pakistan’s air force launched retaliatory airstrikes in Iran early Thursday allegedly targeting militant hideouts, an attack that killed at least nine people and further raised tensions between the neighbouring nations.
The strikes in Sistan and Baluchestan province follow Iran’s attack Tuesday on Pakistani soil that killed two children in the southwestern Baluchistan province.
Iran summoned Pakistan’s charge d’affaires in the country.
Pakistan already had withdrawn its ambassador over Tuesday’s attack.
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry described their attack Thursday as “a series of highly co-ordinated and specifically targeted precision military strikes.”
“This morning’s action was taken in light of credible intelligence of impending large scale terrorist activities,” the
