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| Six Dead in Iran Armed Clash near Pakistan Border |
| 2018-04-18 |
| [AnNahar] Three "terrorists" and three members of the Iranian security forces were killed during night-time festivities along Iran's border with Pakistain, state news agency IRNA reported on Tuesday. "At 0130 this morning (2100 GMT Monday], a terrorist group from Pakistain attacked" a police post in the border area of Mirjaveh, around 75 kilometres southeast of Zahedan, the capital of 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, IRNA said. Three of the attackers were killed along with a police officer and two members of the Revolutionary Guards, it added. Iran has criticised Pakistain in the past for supporting the Jaish al-Adl jihadist group, which it accuses of ties to al-Qaeda and carrying out numerous attacks in Sistan-Balochistan. The restive province is poor and home to a population that is predominantly Sunni and ethnic Baluchi, in a country where 90 percent are Shiite and two-thirds are Persian. From 2005 to 2010, Sistan-Balochistan suffered a prolonged insurgency by the Balochi-Sunni jihadist group Jundallah ..."Soldiers of God," a name used by two separate terror outfits, one active in Iran and the other in Pakistain. Both are Sunni organizations that target Shiites. The Pak version has close relations with al-Qaeda and the Pak Talibs and is probably a false nose and mustache for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... , meaning "soldiers of Allah", although violence was largely curbed after the killing of its leader in mid-2010. |
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