Pakistani Parliamentary Delegation to Visit Iran

Rapporteur of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Hossein Naqavi Hosseini told Tasnim on Saturday that the Pakistani legislators will travel to Iran on May 6 at the invitation of his commission.

During their five-day stay in Iran, the Pakistani lawmakers are planned to hold meetings with their Iranian peers and other officials, he added.

According to Naqavi Hosseini, the visiting MPs from Pakistan and members of the Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign policy commission will travel to Iran’s southeastern port city of Chabahar on May 9 to evaluate the “economic capacities” of the major port.

Thereafter, he noted, the two groups will travel to Gwadar Port in Balochistan province of Pakistan to study the opportunities for Tehran-Islamabad cooperation.

The visit will come as Iranian officials in recent days have voiced discontent at the Islamabad government’s failure to live up to its commitments under bilateral  security and border agreements and its inability to prevent terrorist attacks against Iran from inside Pakistan.

In the latest such attack, Takfiri militants shot to death 10 Iranian border guards who were patrolling on the frontier with Pakistan on Wednesday.

The Iranian troops were martyred in an ambush by the terrorists in Mirjaveh in the Iran-Pakistan border’s zero-point.

A terrorist group calling itself Jaish al-Adl has claimed responsibility for the deadly attack.

According to Spokesman for the Iranian Police Brigadier General Saeed Montazer-al-Mahdi, the border guards were killed by long-range weapons firing from inside Pakistan.

The Pakistani government is to blame for the incident and they should be accountable for it, he told Tasnim.

Chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi has also slammed the attack, saying the neighboring country has become a “safe haven” for terrorist cells.