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The five Iranian guards were kidnapped on February 6 in Iran's restive Sistan-Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
province by turbans who allegedly took them across the border to Pakistain.
Iran has denounced what it called Pakistain's inability to secure its own borders, with Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli reportedly warning that Tehran may send forces into Pakistain to free the border guards.
"Pakistain regrets the suggestions of negligence on its part over the incident, especially when Pakistain's active support against terrorist groups in the past, is well-known and acknowledged by Iran," a Pak government statement said.
"Pakistain has already informed the Iranian authorities that its Frontier Corps teams have intensively combed the entire region but could not verify the entry or presence of these Iranian border guards on its territory. It is therefore possible that the miscreants along with the kidnapped border guards are still hiding within the Iranian territory." Expressing "serious concern" over the interior minister's reported comments, Islamabad warned that, "Iranian forces have no authority to cross our borders in violation of the international law".