Days after a terror attack in the south-eastern Sistan and Balouchestan that killed 27 revolutionary guards, Iran on Sunday summoned Pakistan ambassador Riffat Masood to lodge a formal protest. India has already summoned Pakistani high commissioner Sohail Mahmood in the aftermath of the Pulwama terror attack. Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has also slammed Pakistan and called on Islamabad to be held accountable for the terror attack. However, Pakistan's foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi called on Iran's foreign minister Javad Zarif and said his country is ready to cooperate to investigate the attack. Meanwhile, India's external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj had made a stopover in Tehran on Saturday and meting with Iranian deputy foreign minister Seyyed Abbas Araqchi.

Source: dna February 17, 2019 23:26 UTC