Need for Iran-Pak Cooperation Against Terrorists & Sponsors of Terrorism

By: Kayhan Int’l

It is rather strange that a day after a border security accord was inked in Tehran after three days of negotiations between the civilian and military officials of Iran and Pakistan, terrorists carried out a deadly attack in Balochistan’s mountainous area of Kech, reportedly killing six Pakistani soldiers and injuring some 30 others.

More strange, Iranian ambassador to Islamabad, Mahdi Honordoust, was called to the Pakistani foreign ministry and sounded protest over the terrorist attack that has nothing to do with the Islamic Republic of Iran and has been claimed by the Baluchistan Liberation Army (BLA).

Yet despite this strangeness, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman, Bahram Qassemi, denounced the terrorist attack in Kech, offered condolences to the bereaved Pakistani families, and once again reiterated the readiness of Tehran for joint military action with Islamabad in Pakistan’s Balochistan, which has strangely become a haven for various terrorist outfits, operating against the two countries, and mainly financed by Saudi Arabia – the mother of all terrorists and terrorism, which pours billions of dollars into Pakistan’s state coffers to silence any objection to its nefarious activities. 

It should be recalled that over a month ago when some 14 Iranian border guards in Mirjaveh, Sistan-Baluchestan Province, were kidnapped by terrorists and taken to their hideouts across the border in Balochistan, Iranian Interior Minister, Abdur-Reza Rahmani-Fazli, had called for intelligence sharing between the two friendly neighbours and suggested Iranian operations on Pakistani soil under Islamabad’s supervision.

Sadly no positive response came from Islamabad, and except for the belated release of five of the abductees, the rest continue to be held hostage by the terrorists on Pakistani soil.

Iran has always stood beside Pakistan, but unfortunately Islamabad has not always reciprocated in like manner because of outside pressures on the successive governments, which seem to be overawed by the overinflated power of the US and the hush-money Riyadh regularly pays to Islamabad for not just shunning cooperation with Tehran but turning a blind eye to the takfiri terrorist outfits which have plunged Pakistan into sectarian strife.

It is however, still not late for the two countries to get over such glitches and earnestly start mutual military cooperation against the various terrorist outfits on Pakistani soil.

Pakistan should realize its potential and its Islamic roots, rather than allowing itself to be either browbeaten by the US or be bribed by the Saudis.

In Iran, we do understand the monetary needs of cash-strapped Pakistan, and hence it’s over-dependence on Saudi Arabia which employs tens of thousands of Pakistanis and which occasionally gives some of the oil wealth it continues to loot from the deprived people of the eastern region of the Arabian Peninsula.

We have the firm conviction that once Pakistan summons the courage to resist outside pressures and start rebuilding the bonds of brotherhood with the Islamic Republic of Iran, it will definitely emerge as a respectable power which neither the US can threaten nor the Saudis can humiliate – as they do very often. 

Moreover, Saudi Arabia, which is a spurious state created by the British in 1932 for the desert brigand of Najd, Abdul-Aziz, and is without any historical, cultural, and geographical foundations, may not last much on the map of West Asia, as is evident by the suicidal policies the ruling heretical Wahhabi cult pursues.

No amount of American and Zionist assistance can put the humpty dumpty together again.  

In view of these undeniable facts, any serious campaign against terrorism requires Iran and Pakistan Islamabad to join their fraternal hands and start the much awaited operations to weed out terrorists of all hue and colour, especially from Balochestan.