Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Iran President Hassan Rouhani after the 10-nation Economic Cooperation Organisation summit in Islamabad on March 1, 2017. | Photo Credit: AFPmore-inIran’s Foreign Ministry has summoned Pakistan’s Ambassador in Tehran to protest against the killing of nine Iranian border guards by Sunni militants attacking from neighbouring Pakistan, Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported on Friday. The Sunni Muslim militant group called Jaish al Adl, or the Army of Justice, has claimed responsibility for the attack on Wednesday in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan Province. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani also called on Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to prosecute the militants who had killed the Iranian border guards. The group killed eight border guards in 2015 and 14 border guards two years earlier.

Source: The Hindu April 28, 2017 15:22 UTC