4 soldiers martyred in an attack on Pak-Iran border: ISPR says:
PM terms eradication of terrorism as national agenda
RAWALPINDI (Online): Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) has said in statement that a group of Terrorists operating from Iranian side attacked a routine border patrol of Pakistani security forces operating along Pakistan-Iran Border in Jalgai Sector, District Kech.
In the attack, unfortunately 4 soldiers including Naik Shair Ahmed, Lance Naik Muhammad Asghar, Sepoy Muhammad Irfan and Sepoy Abdur Rasheed were critically injured and later embraced shahadat.
Necessary contact with Iranian side is being made for effective action against terrorists on the Iranian side and to prevent such incidents in future.
ISPR said that Pakistan has demanded effective and immediate action from the Iranian officials.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif says eradication of terrorism is our national agenda and all out efforts will be made to eliminate this menace.
Expressing grief and sorrow over the martyrdom of four security personnel in Kech district of Balochistan, the Prime Minister said sons of the nation are sacrificing their precious lives for the defense, security and protection of the motherland.
He said nation salutes the soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country.
The Prime Minister expressed sympathy and condolences with the families of the martyrs and prayed for high place of martyrs in jannah.
Iranian Embassy strongly condemned the terrorist attack on Pakistani forces in the Kech district near the Pak-Iran border.
The Iranian Embassy spokesman said that the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Pakistan expressed sympathy with the families of those who lost their lives and prays for the martyrs.
In a statement, the spokesman stated that terrorism is the common pain of the two countries & the two Muslim nations have sacrificed precious lives in the fight against this plague.