Re: Even Iran is complaining about terrorism from Pakistan!
He is a top cleric in Tehran. You don’t get that position with the mullah regime by not begin connected to them. The Pakistani envoy was also summoned by the Iranian government and one of their officials accused Pakistan of not doing enough to stop terrorism. Iran an Pakistan have never seen eye to eye, but these are some bold accusations on their part. I wonder how this will affect the Baloch insurgency on bother sides of the border. There are apparently many balochis in Jundullah since they are mostly sunni. I can easily see a situation in which ISI might start supporting Jundullah to promote Sunni fundamentalism among Balochs in order to ween them away from Bugti style nationalism. Even CIA might lend a hand in order to stick it to Iran and we might end up with the Afghanistan war 2.0 debacle.
http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_20827.shtml
Iran fences border with Pakistan
Mar 2, 2007
Iran has started building a concrete wall along its border with Pakistan, from Taftan to Mand, to stop illegal border crossings. According to reports received here, the wall will be built from near the border town of Taftan, about 700km west of Quetta in the Baluchistan province. “The Iranian authorities started work on the wall about a month ago,” according to Barkat Ali Khan, a Pakistani border town administration official.
“The concrete wall will be 10 feet high (3m) and 3 feet(1m) wide,” he said, adding that hundreds of workers could be seen building the wall.
Iranian border security forces have reportedly given an ultimatum to the residents of a Pakistani border town to vacate the town within 10 days. Residents of Sorap in the western Mekran region in Baluchistan told a group of visiting journalists that they did not know why the Iranian border forces were asking them to leave their homes.
The intensified security along the frontier comes in the wake of a bomb blast in Zahidan on 17 February which killed thirteen people, including nine Iranian Revolutionary Guard officials, and another incident in which four people were killed, and two kidnapped from along the border.
Pakistan said on Friday it was not concerned at reports that Iran was erecting a concrete wall on the shared border between the two countries.
“The fence is on the Iranian side of the border. We have no problem with that,” said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam.
According to reports, Iran is building a 10-foot high concrete wall reinforced with steel rods along its shared border with Pakistan’s Balochistan province.
The spokeswoman denied any link between the fence and a bomb blast in the Iranian border town of Zahidan, and a clash earlier this week in another border region.
“Those were incidents inside Iran,” Ms. Aslam said, and denied that Iran was blaming these incidents on elements from across its eastern border.
“We are not being blamed.”
The spokesperson also described as wrong reports that the Pakistan envoy to Tehran was summoned by the Iranian Foreign Ministry following the February 17 Zahidan bomb blast that killed 13 persons, nine of whom were officials of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
She said the envoy had “a meeting” with an Iranian official in the Foreign ministry.
On Wednesday, the Iranian news agency IRNA said police clashed with armed bandits in the Iranian town of Negor on the border with Pakistan. Two policemen were killed and four others were taken hostage by the bandits. The report quoted the police chief saying the armed bandits had fled across the border.