Iran conducts another military strike inside Pakistan, attacks terrorist group

Iran International English, citing Iran’s state-run media, stated that Iran’s military forces assassinated prominent Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice) militant group commander Ismail Shahbakhsh and some of his associates in Pakistan territory.

The most recent event occurred one month after the two nations’ airstrikes on one another, when Iranian soldiers engaged in combat with a militant organization.

Al Arabiya News reported that Jaish al-Adl, a Sunni terrorist organization that was founded in 2012 and that Iran has classified as a “terrorist” organization, is active in the province of Sistan-Baluchistan in the southeast of the country.

The Jaish al-Adl has attacked Iranian security personnel multiple times over the years. At least eleven police officers were killed in an attack on a Sistan-Balochistan police station in December, for which Jaish al-Adl claimed responsibility.

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But this month, Iran and Pakistan jointly decided to increase security cooperation, weeks after both countries launched missile strikes against “terror units” within each other’s borders.

The agreement was revealed at a joint news conference held at the Pakistan Foreign Office by Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and Pakistani Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani.

Jilani claimed that “misunderstandings” may be swiftly cleared up in Iran and Pakistan. He said that the two nations also decided to ease each other’s fears and combat terrorism in their respective regions.

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The latest attack, however, demonstrated the opposite.

Following missile strikes by Iran and Pakistan against each other, which targeted “terrorist groups”, relations between the two countries grew more tense.

On the late night of January 16, Iran launched missile and drone strikes into Pakistan with the goal of destroying two “important headquarters” of Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice). According to Islamabad, the strikes left three girls injured and two children dead.

Later on, though, both nations resolved to cooperate in order to “de-escalate” tensions and to restore their respective ambassadors to their respective positions.

(With agency inputs)