Foreign Ministers of Pakistan, Iran to hold telephonic talks amid tension
The Hindu
Foreign Ministers of Pakistan and Iran are expected to hold talks over telephone as the two sides began to pick threads of tattered ties following their missile strikes against alleged militants in each other’s land.
Foreign Ministers of Pakistan and Iran are expected to hold talks over telephone as the two sides began to pick threads of tattered ties following their missile strikes against alleged militants in each other’s land.
The development comes amidst officials of the foreign ministries from the two sides exchanging goodwill messages.
Pakistan conducted "precision military strikes" against what it called "terrorist hideouts" in Iran's Siestan-Balochistan province that killed 9 people on January 18. The attack was seen as retaliation to Iranian missile and drone attacks on January 16, which targeted two bases of the Sunni Baloch militant group Jaish al-Adl in Pakistan's unruly Balochistan province.
Belying fears of escalation, the two sides are apparently trying to come back from the precipice. “Foreign ministers Jalil Abbas Jilani and Hossein Amir-Abdollahian would interact to ease tension between the countries,” well-placed sources told PTI.
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The sources also said that talks would be held by the evening without giving exact time.
The high-level contact will take place as officials of the foreign ministries of the two sides exchanged messages of goodwill, showing that the tiff between the two neighbours was cooling off sooner than it erupted two days ago.