Islamabad, October 24: Pakistan’s interior minister has promised his Iranian counterpart assistance in a crackdown on the terrorist group known as Jundullah who are responsible for a recent Sistan-Baluchestan attack.
“These terrorist are trying to create tension between Iran and Pakistan, but we will not allow so. We have already helped and assisted Iran in several matters and I assure my visiting brother (Iran’s interior minister) that Pakistan will leave no stone unturned to take action against the terrorists,” Pakistani Interior Minister, Rehman Malik said in a meeting with Iran’s Interior Minister, Mustafa Mohammad Najjar on Friday in Pakistan.
Malik assured Najjar that Islamabad would do all that was needed to arrest and hand over the Jundallah leader, Abdolmalek Rigi to Tehran, IRIB reported.
The Iranian minister described Iran as one of the most secure countries in the region and said that Tehran was capable of confronting any threat from abroad. However, he asked Pakistan to cooperate with Iran in fighting terrorism.
Najjar is in Islamabad to ask Pakistani officials to hand over Abdolmalek Rigi and assist Iran on cracking down on his terrorist group. Jundallah has claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack it carried out in southeast of Iran on Sunday October 18, where at least 42 people lost their lives.
The Pakistan-based Jundallah, led by Abdolmalek Rigi, has staged a torrent of bombings and terrorist attacks in Iran.
—–Agencies