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| Pakistan detains 12 Iranian Guards on the border |
| 2009-10-27 |
| Pakistani forces detained 12 Iranian Revolutionary Guards on Monday for crossing into Pakistan days after an Iranian commander was reported saying his men should be allowed to confront terrorists in Pakistan. "There are 12 Iranians who have been arrested along with two vehicles," Mohammad Akbar Durrani, home secretary of Pakistan's western province of Baluchistan, which borders Iran, told AFP. "They are being interrogated," Durrani said, declining to give any details on the men's identities. "We informed the Foreign Office about the arrests." A border official earlier said 11 Iranian Revolutionary Guards were arrested after they crossed the border into Pakistan, but he spoke on condition of anonymity and there was no other confirmation. The Guards were arrested in the Mashkhel area on the border with Iran eight days after a suicide bomber killed 42 people, including six Revolutionary Guard commanders, in Iran's southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan province. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Iranian hot air about the CIA aside, apparently the local authorities have a pretty good idea who's behind Jundallah. Between this, the sabre-rattling on the Bangla/Burmese border, and the Syrian-Iraqi tension, I'm starting to get kind of a "widening gyre" feel from the news in South Asia this month. Ten months into the Age of Hope, and the facts on the ground suggest that the collective Middle East thinks the centre ain't holdin'. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2009-10-27 13:24 |