Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (R) meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in the Iranian capital Tehran, April 22, 2019. (AP) By Aqil Nadeem July 23, 2020 Two Joint Investigation Team (JIT) reports, one released by the federal minister for maritime affairs, Ali Haider Zaidi, and the other by Sindh’s provincial administration, corroborate each [...]
Uzair Baloch flanked by Rangers personnel in Karachi in January 2016. (EPA) By Naila Mahsud July 17, 2020 Uzair Baloch, who was tried by a military court three years ago for spying on his country’s army and providing information to Iranian intelligence officials on sensitive installations in Pakistan, made headlines again after the provincial [...]
Uzair Baloch flanked by Rangers personnel in Karachi in January 2016. (EPA) July 10, 2020 An investigation report released by Pakistan’s provincial government in Sindh this week has said a Pakistani ganglord, long suspected of building a business empire through extortion, kidnapping and drugs, had confessed to spying for Iranian intelligence agencies in [...]
The border points will be open only for the purpose of trade and the ban on the cross-border movement of people will remain in place until further notice. (Getty) July 06, 2020 Starting Sunday, Pakistan will resume trade at four of its border points with Iran, weeks after opening its main Taftan crossing [...]
The Iranian government has announced that it is ready to swap prisoners with other countries including Pakistan. (Supplied) June 24, 2020 The government is doing its best to bring back Pakistani prisoners from Iranian jails, foreign office spokesperson Aisha Farooqui told Arab News on Tuesday in response to an assertion made by a [...]
Authorities say the border was being opened immediately to facilitate export of mangoes and other perishable food items to Iran. (Supplied) June 19, 2020 Pakistan announced that it is reopening its key southwestern Taftan border crossing with neighboring Iran on Thursday to allow trade between the two countries. Thursday’s move comes three months [...]
Pakistani soldiers on patrol near the Pakistan-Iran border in Taftan, Pakistan, on February 25, 2020. (AFP) June 6, 2020 A major intelligence-based operation is ongoing against militants hiding near Pakistan’s border with Iran in the southwestern Balochistan province, Pakistani intelligence officials and local witnesses said, in the latest attempt to combat violence on [...]
A Pakistani border security official (R) and an Iranian border official meet at Zero Point in the Pakistan-Iran border town of Taftan, October 16, 2018. (AFP) By Rahimullah Yusufzai May 23, 2020 A few days after the May 8 attack by Baloch separatists near the Pak-Iran border that caused the death of six Pakistani [...]
Pakistan Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa meets Mohammad Bagheri, chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, in Tehran on Nov. 18. (ISPR) By Rasul Bakhsh Rais May 20, 2020 On May 7, six soldiers including an officer of the Frontier Constabulary were killed by an improvised explosive device planted along the Buledia area [...]
Iran road sign near the Pakistan Iran Border. (IRNA) May 13, 2020 Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, has asked Iran to enhance border security measures to curb terrorist attacks on Pakistani security forces by militants allegedly operating from Iranian soil. Gen Bajwa called Chief of the Armed Forces [...]
