Iran Military Kills Senior Jaish al-Adl Terror Group's Commander Ismail Shahbakhsh Inside Pakistan

In yet ar escalation between Iran and Pakistan’s fractured bilateral ties, Iran’s military wd an armed clash inside Pakistani territory and killed senior Jaish al-Adl terror group's commander Ismail Shahbakhsh. faction's headquarter is located in Baluchistan, southwestern Pakistani province. In Iranian attack, some of terror commander’s companions were also killed, according to Iran's state-run media.  

attack by Iranian forces on Pakistani soil comes just a month after two countries conducted airstrikes on each or’s territories. Sunni terrorist group that operates in Iran's souastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan was formed in 2012 and has been designated as ‘terrorrist’ organization in Islamic Republic. Pakistani Jaish al-Adl has has been involved in numerous attacks on Iranian security forces.

Jaish al-Adl killed IRGC Colonel, two guards

In January, Pakistan based terror group shot at and killed a senior officer of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and his two guards. slain Iranian officer was identified as Colonel Hossein Ali Javidanfar of IRGC's Salman Corps. He was returning from administrative work from Khash and Zahedan, capital of Sistan-Baluchistan, when he was attacked by unkwn assailants. Colonel Javidanfar was “IRGC's cultural affairs expert who was on an administrative mission to Saravan city when he was killed along with his two guards by armed assailant,” state-run Iranian news ncy IRNA said. responsibility of attack was later claimed by Jaish al-Adl.

Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, while speaking at World Ecomic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, clarified that Iran has been conducting attacks in Pakistan that were targeted at terrorist group, t any Pakistani civilian. "re is a Daesh group, so-called Jaish ul-Adl, which is an Iranian terrorist group. And y are somehow re, y have taken shelter in some parts of Sistan-Balochistan province of Pakistan," said Amir-Abdollahian.

Pakistan claimed that two children were killed and three ors were injured in Iranian attack on two bases of Jaish ul-Adl in Balochistan. "We do respect sovereignty and territorial integrity of Pakistan, but we don't allow our national security to be compromised,” Amir-Abdollahian asserted in response to Pakistan’s objection.

Islamabad slammed strikes on its territory as “unprovoked violation.”