Iran’s international minister was in Pakistan for talks Monday, as each nations sought to ease tensions after lethal cross-border strikes threatened diplomatic relations.

Pakistan’s international ministry shared footage and video of Hossein Amir-Abdollahian arriving in Islamabad late Sunday, saying he would maintain talks along with his native counterpart Jalil Abbas Jilani and name on caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar.

On January 18, Pakistan launched air strikes on what it referred to as “militant targets” in Iran, two days after similar Iranian strikes on its territory.

The tit-for-tat raids in the porous border area of Baluchistan — cut up between the 2 nations — stoked regional tensions already infected by the Israel-Hamas battle.

On Saturday, gunmen in southeastern Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan province killed nine people, with Islamabad’s ambassador figuring out them as Pakistanis.

Sistan-Baluchistan is without doubt one of the few primarily Sunni Muslim provinces in Shiite-dominated Iran.

It has seen persistent unrest involving cross-border drug-smuggling gangs and rebels from the Baluch ethnic minority, in addition to jihadists.

The preliminary Iranian strikes, which Pakistan stated killed at the least two youngsters, drew a pointy rebuke from Islamabad, which recalled its ambassador from Tehran and blocked Iran’s envoy from returning to his submit.

Tehran additionally summoned Islamabad’s cost d’affaires over Pakistan’s strikes, which left at the least 9 folks useless.

The two nations, nevertheless, since introduced they’ve determined to de-escalate and resume diplomatic missions with the 2 ambassadors returning to their posts.

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