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Escalating Iran-Pak tensions may weaken Waziristan offensive, warns US diplomat | The escalating tensions between Iran and Pakistan, following President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad alleging
that Pakistani elements were involved in Sunday’s attack on the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, may shift Pakistan’s focus from its ongoing offensive against the Taliban
in South Waziristan, a US diplomat has warned. “Growing tensions with Iran at
this time are just not going to help. If Pak-Iran tensions grow, that will not
help anyone. The danger will be of Pakistan loosing focus on Waziristan,” The
Daily Times quoted a US diplomat in Islamabad, as saying. Earlier, Ahmadinejad
had asked the Pakistan Government to quickly apprehend and hand over “some security
agents” to Iran who were reportedly involved in the Sunday''s attack on the Revolutionary
Guards. "We were informed that some security agents in Pakistan are cooperating
with the main elements of this terrorist incident... We regard it as our right
to demand these criminals from them," he had said. The suicide attack, claimed
to have been carried out by Jundullah - a militant Sunni Muslim group - killed
at least 42 people in Pishin, a town near Iran’s border with Pakistan. The victims
included General Nur Ali Shushtari, the deputy commander of Iran’s Revolutionary
Guards ground forces, General Muhammad-Zadeh, the Guards commander in Sistan-Baluchestan
and at least three other Revolutionary Guards commanders. Last month, an Iranian
official had accused Pakistan’s security officials of helping Jundullah gain arms
and training in the neighbouring country’s Balochistan province. “We have told
our Pakistani brothers a number of times that this kind of behaviour will not
help either of our two countries. You (Pakistan) must act before there is disaster,”
he said. |
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