Pakistan has voraciously condemned the killing of one of the five abducted Iranian guards and stated yet again that they were not being held on its soil.
“Our investigations have neither corroborated nor established the entry into or presence within Pakistani territory of the Iranian border guards,” Foreign Office spokesperson Tasneem Aslam said in a statement on Wednesday.
Her comments followed remarks by Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Marzieh Afkham that her government considered Pakistani government responsible for the safety of the kidnapped guards.
Five Iranian border guards were kidnapped on February 6 from Pak-Iran border by an Iranian militant group “Jaish al-Adl” which is accused of having sanctuaries in Pakistan’s Balochistan province.
The group has now claimed to have killed one of the guards who has been identified as Jamshid Danaeefar
