Iran, Pakistan agree to de-escalate tensions after trading deadly airstrikes
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Pakistan and Iran have agreed to de-escalate tensions after both countries traded deadly airstrikes on militant targets in each other’s territory this week. The military actions in the porous border region of Balochistan — split between Pakistan and Iran- had stoked regional tensions which are already enflamed by the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.
However, on Friday, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani spoke with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and both leaders agreed “close coordination on counter-terrorism and other aspects of mutual concern should be strengthened.”
A statement from the Pakistani foreign ministry said that Jilani and Amir-Abdollahian also agreed to “de-escalate the situation.” Following the conversation Amir-Abdollahian said that the cooperation of Islamabad and Tehran “to neutralise and destroy terrorist camps in Pakistan is essential.”
Earlier on Friday, Pakistan Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar held an emergency security meeting with military and intelligence chiefs amid fears of the crisis between Pakistan and Iran escalating.
Prime Minister Kakar had cut short his visit to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos following the airstrikes. In a statement released from his office, “The forum reiterated the unflinching resolve that sovereignty and territorial integrity of Pakistan are absolutely inviolable.”
