Operation Marg Bar Sarmachar | |
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Part of the 2024 Iran–Pakistan border skirmishes and insurgency in Balochistan | |
Type | Air strikes and missile strikes |
Location | Saravan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran 27°22′15″N 62°19′57″E / 27.37083°N 62.33250°E |
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Date | 18 January 2024 04:05 IRST[1] (UTC+03:30) |
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Casualties | 9 people killed,[2] several injured |
On 18 January 2024, Pakistan launched a series of air and artillery strikes inside Iran's Sistan and Baluchestan province, targeting Baloch separatist groups, codenamed Operation Marg Bar Sarmachar (Urdu: آپریشن مرگ بر سرمچار, lit. 'Death to Insurgents'[a]) by Pakistan. The attack was launched in response to the Iranian missile strikes in Pakistan's Balochistan province, one day earlier.[5][2]
Iran said that nine foreign nationals were killed in the attack. The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) confirmed that its members were among those killed.[6][7]
This attack marked the first known instance of a foreign country launching an attack on Iranian soil since the end of the Iran–Iraq War in 1988.[8]
The Baluch Liberation Army, an ethnic separatist group that's operated in the region since 2000, said in a statement the strikes targeted and killed its people
The Baluch Liberation Army, an ethnic separatist group, said the strikes had killed its members. "Pakistan will have to pay a price for it," the organization said
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