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Five Iranian security personnel who had been held by jihadists for a month have been flown home after Pakistani forces secured their release, Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Thursday, November 22.
The five were part of a mixed unit of 12 border guards, militiamen and IRGC members who were captured by the Pakistan-based Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice) during an operation near the border on October 16, a state television-run news agency reported.
Images released later by their captors showed seven IRGC members and five police commandos.
The Iranians, including intelligence officers, were abducted near Lulakdan, a village 150 km (90 miles) southeast of Zahedan, capital of the southeastern province of Sistan and Balochistan.
Pakistan’s foreign ministry announced on November 15 that police and troops had secured the release of five of the captives and were still trying to free the others.
“Following efforts and interactions with the Pakistani side to free the border guards and militiamen,” five of them “were released and returned to Iran last night”, the IRGC said.
The IRGC website carried photographs of the five being welcomed home by generals as they got off the plane.
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif visited Islamabad twice in a month for briefings on the progress of the efforts to secure the captured unit’s release.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi blamed the kidnapping on “our common enemies unhappy with the existing close, friendly relations between Pakistan and Iran.”
https://thedefensepost.com/2018/11/22/iran-5-irgc-freed-jaish-al-adl-pakistan/
The five were part of a mixed unit of 12 border guards, militiamen and IRGC members who were captured by the Pakistan-based Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice) during an operation near the border on October 16, a state television-run news agency reported.
Images released later by their captors showed seven IRGC members and five police commandos.
The Iranians, including intelligence officers, were abducted near Lulakdan, a village 150 km (90 miles) southeast of Zahedan, capital of the southeastern province of Sistan and Balochistan.
Pakistan’s foreign ministry announced on November 15 that police and troops had secured the release of five of the captives and were still trying to free the others.
“Following efforts and interactions with the Pakistani side to free the border guards and militiamen,” five of them “were released and returned to Iran last night”, the IRGC said.
The IRGC website carried photographs of the five being welcomed home by generals as they got off the plane.
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif visited Islamabad twice in a month for briefings on the progress of the efforts to secure the captured unit’s release.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi blamed the kidnapping on “our common enemies unhappy with the existing close, friendly relations between Pakistan and Iran.”
https://thedefensepost.com/2018/11/22/iran-5-irgc-freed-jaish-al-adl-pakistan/
