A short-lived but intensive tension between Iran and Pakistan is gradually defusing with both countries, after a tit-for-tat missile attack, have “mutually agreed that ambassadors of both countries may return to their respective posts by 26 January 2024.”
A joint press statement of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the Islamic Republic of Iran said that Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian would undertake a visit to Pakistan on 29 January 2024 at the invitation of Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani.
The decisions were announced following a phone call between Jilani and Amirabdollahian.
According to Caretaker Minister for Information, Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs Murtaza Solangi, Caretaker Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani played a visionary role in “managing the fastest de-escalation” between Pakistan and Iran.
The minister, in an interview with a Turkish broadcaster TRT, said that the tension between Pakistan and Iran had significantly been reduced.
He said Pakistan’s leadership had overcome the issue to a greater extent, and lauded the constructive role played by brotherly countries, including Turkiye and China, for defusing the tension.
Pakistan and Iran downgraded their bilateral relationship a couple of days ago following start of a sudden conflict between decade old brotherly countries.
Last week’s rare military actions in the porous border region of Balochistan split between the two nations had stoked regional tensions already inflamed by Israel’s war on Gaza.
