2024 Iran–Pakistan conflict
| 2024 Iran–Pakistan conflict | |||||
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| Part of the insurgency in Balochistan and Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency | |||||
Location of Iran (green) and Pakistan (orange) | |||||
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| Belligerents | |||||
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Iran Claimed by Pakistan: Baloch Nationalists: Balochistan Liberation Army Balochistan Liberation Front |
Pakistan Claimed by Iran: Islamists: Jaish ul-Adl | ||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||
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Ali Khamenei Ebrahim Raisi Hossein Salami Bashir Zeb Allah Nazar Baloch |
Arif Alvi Anwar ul-Haq Kakar (caretaker) Anwar Ali Hyder Sahir Mirza Zaheer Ahmad Babar Salahuddin Farooqui | ||||
| Units involved | |||||
| Iranian Armed Forces | Pakistan Armed Forces | ||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||
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9 foreign nationals killed in Iran (18 January) 2 killed and 4 wounded in Pakistan (16 January) | |||||
On 16 January 2024, Iran conducted a series of missile strikes in Pakistan, asserting that it had targeted militants of the Baloch separatist group Jaish ul-Adl in the Pakistani province of Balochistan. This attack occurred one day after a similar series of Iranian missile strikes in Iraq and Syria, which the Iranian government had stated were in response to the Kerman bombings by the Islamic State on 3 January. Pakistan's government condemned the strikes as an "unprovoked violation" of Pakistani airspace.
Two days later, on 18 January, Pakistan conducted a retaliatory series of missile strikes in Iran, asserting that it had targeted militants of the Balochistan Liberation Army and the Balochistan Liberation Front in the Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan. Iran's government condemned the strikes and stated that nine people had been killed, including four children. Pakistani airstrikes marked the first known instance of foreign country launching attacks on Iranian soil since the end of Iran–Iraq War 1988.
Communicating through diplomatic channels on 19 January, both countries agreed to de-escalate and cooperate along the Iran–Pakistan border. Pakistan recalled the Iranian ambassador to Islamabad and reinstated the Pakistani ambassador in Tehran.
Foreign Minister of Iran Hossein Amir-Abdollahian visited Pakistan on 29 January 2024 at the invitation of Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani in a push to diffuse the standoff.