Pakistani agents recovered three Iranian policemen who were kidnapped by Baluch militants and handed them back to authorities in Iran, while a fourth is believed to have been killed. The four police were abducted Feb. 27 by the Jundallah militant group after a deadly clash in Iran's southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, and taken across the Pakistani border. (AFP [1], March 26)
There have long been accusations that Iran and Pakistan were cultivating rival Baluch factions to mkae trouble across each others' borders. This latest development is another indication that the Baluch are now acting independently of their erstwhile clients—causing Tehran and Islamabad to close ranks to crush them...
See our last posts on Iran [2], Pakistan [3] and Baluchistan [4].
