Pakistan caretaker PM cuts short Davos trip after airstrikes in Iran

Pakistan caretaker prime minister Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar has cut short his Davos trip and are urgently returning to Islamabad amid escalating tension with Iran. The Pakistan’s interim PM is in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum 2024. As per reports, Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar is now headed back to Islamabad after the Pakistan’s military’s Operation ‘Marg Bar Sarmachar’. “PM Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar has decided to cut short his visit in view of the ongoing developments,” Pakistan’s foreign ministry spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said in a press conference. Also, caretaker Foreign Minister, Jalil Abbas Jilani, who embarked on a week-long official visit to Kampala on Tuesday, Uganda to participate in the 19th Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the Third South Summit, was returning to his country. Earlier on Thursday, Pakistan’s army and military carried out a series of “highly coordinated and specifically targeted precision military strikes” in Sistan-o-Baluchistan province inside the Iranian border. The attack was a response to missile and drone strike launched by Tehran on Tuesday targeting the Jaish al-Adi group’s headquarters in Balochistan’s “Green Mountain” area. Two were dead and three girls injured in the attack. According to Iranian state media reports, nine people have been killed in Pakistan’s airstrike in Iran. Iran summons Pakistan’s envoy Iran Thursday summoned Pakistan’s envoy following missile strike that hit a border region. “Following the early morning attack by Pakistan on a border village in Sistan Baluchistan province, an hour ago the Pakistani charge d’affaires in Tehran was summoned to the Foreign Ministry for an explanation,” Tasnim news agency said. With inputs from agencies