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Ahmadinejad urges Zardari to confront Jundallah Group | Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday urged Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari to confront the Jundallah, a Sunni militant group which Tehran says was behind the bombing on Revolutionary Guard commanders
in the southeastern part of his country on Sunday. "Iran and Pakistan have a brotherly relationship, but the presence of terrorist elements in Pakistan is
not justifiable," Ahmadinejad told Zardari during a telephone call received from
Zardari , Iran 's official IRNA news agency said. "The Pakistani government should
help to quickly arrest these criminals so they can be punished," Ahmadinejad said,
adding: "The criminal terrorists must be seriously confronted by setting up a
bilateral timetable." IRNA said Zardari expressed his condolences and agreed on
setting up a timetable to confront the militant group, Jundallah (Soldiers of
God). Iranian officials have accused Pakistan , Britain and the United States
of aiding the group, alleged to be behind Sunday's suicide bombing in the town
of Pisheen in Sistan-Balochistan province. Hours after the attack Ahmadinejad
alleged the assault was plotted in Pakistan , which borders the restive province,
a flashpoint of Sunni insurgency. The head of the Guards, General Mohammad Ali
Jafari, said on Monday that Tehran will demand that Pakistan hand over Jundallah
leader Abdolmalek Rigi, who is accused of being the mastermind of the bombing.
A foreign news agency quoted Jafari as saying that a Tehran delegation will head
to Pakistan to deliver ‘proof to them so they know that the Islamic Republic is
aware of its (Pakistan's) support’ to the group led by Rigi. |
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