MNA Derailment of a freight train at Mirjaveh- Quetta railway has stopped railway services between Iran and its eastern neighbor, Pakistan at this route. The incident happened when five wagons of the freight train, carrying sulfur from Irans Mirjaveh to Pakistan Quetta (capital of Baluchistan province of Pakistan), were derailed due to eroded rail ...

IRNA - Deputy Speaker of Pakistans National Assembly Qasim Khan Suri has said that Iran and Pakistan need to make collective efforts to overcome challenges for restoration of peace at both ends of the border. The Deputy Speaker made the remarks during a meeting with Iranian Consul General Mohammad Rafiee in south western city of Quetta. He said ...

IRNA - The sixth meeting of Iran-Pakistan Permanent Border Committee commenced in Pakistans southwestern city of Quetta on Monday. Representatives of customs, security forces and other officials from Irans Sistan-Baluchestan and Pakistans Balochistan Provinces are taking part in the two-day meeting. Chairman of Sistan-Baluchestan Industry, Mine ...

Press TV- Iran says it has transited a major consignment of tangerines from Pakistan to Kazakhstan in an initiative that could open a new corridor for shipment of food items from Southeast Asia to markets as far as Russia. Irans IRNA news agency reported that the consignment that comprised 350 tonnes of tangerines had arrived in the countrys ...

Press TV- Gunmen on a motorcycle have killed at least five Pakistani Shia Muslims in Balochistan Province, in the second terror attack targeting members of the Hazara community in less than a week. Senior police officer Malik Nisar said the assailants opened fire on a pick-up truck carrying a group of Hazara Muslims in the provincial capital,...

IRNA Consul-General of Iran in Pakistans southwestern city of Quetta says that Iranian soil has never been used against Pakistan in the past and nor will it be used in the future. Mohammad Rafiee, addressing a news conference in Quetta at the Iranian Consulate, said that the government of Iran is taking concrete measures to ensure border security,...

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TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian foreign ministry on Tuesday strongly deplored the suicide attacks against a military college in the Pakistani city of Quetta which killed nearly 60 people. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi extended his condolences to the friendly and brotherly Pakistani government and nation as well as the bereaved families, and ...

Four women from Pakistani Shia community have been killed in an attack on their bus in thesouthwest of the country, officials have announced. Abdul Razzaq Cheema, a senior police official said Tuesday that gunmen had opened fire earlier in the day on a bus carrying Shias in the outskirts of Quetta, the capital cityof the southwestern province of ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Irans Foreign Ministry strongly condemned a Monday terrorist attack that left scores of civilians dead at a hospital in Pakistans southwestern city of Quetta. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi on Tuesday expressed condolences to the Pakistani government and nation on the fatal suicide bombing that killed at least 70 people ...

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Secretary of Irans Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani has denounced a terrorist attack ata hospital in the restive city of Quetta in southwestern Pakistan. Terrorists and extremists have targeted all manifestations of the normal life and existenceof human societies, Shamkhani said in a message to Naseer Khan Janjua, an adviser ...

A bomb explosion has killed at least 30 people inside a major hospital in the restive city of Quetta in southwest Pakistan. The blast, which went off in the emergency ward of the hospital on Monday, was confiremd by Balochistan Home Minister Sarfaraz Bugti. Dozens were injured in the incident which took place when a group of lawyers gathered ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Protesters rallied in the Pakistani city of Karachi to protest continued attacks on Shiite Muslims in Pakistan. The protesters and relatives of the victims on Sunday accused the Islamabad government of failing to provide security for Pakistans Shiite community, press tv reported. At least nine Shiites have been killed in a series ...

(Reuters) - Pakistan has suspended buses carrying Shi'ite pilgrims from travelling through its volatile Baluchistan province to neighboringIrandue to security concerns after a suicide attack killed 27 pilgrims this week, officials said on Friday. A 700 km (430 mile) highway connecting the Pakistani city of Quetta andIran, home to many Shi'ite pilgrimage ...

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) -- A Pakistani police officer says relatives of Shiites killed in a suicide bombing this week are rallying for the third straight day, refusing to bury their kin and demanding a crackdown on militants in southwestern Baluchistan province. The officer, Ahmad Nawaz says the Shiites are protesting Tuesday's attack in Mastung district ...

At least 24 people were martyred and 40 others injured in a powerful explosion in Mastung district of Balochistan - Pakistan targeting Shia pilgrims returning from Iran where they had gone on pilgrimage of sacred shrines of Imam Reza (AS), Hazrat Fatima Masoomah, on Tuesday. (AhlulBaytNewsAgency) - At least 24 people were martyred and 40 others injured ...

Islamabad, Oct 31, IRNA At least four people have been killed in a bomb attack in the Pakistani city of Quetta police said. The blast in a busy commercial area also injured nearly 20 more people, some of them critically. Police and rescue services have arrived on site and the injured were taken to a nearby hospital. Four dead bodies were brought ...

Islamabad, Oct 15, IRNA - At least 15 persons including four children were injured in a hand grenade attack on Constabulary van in southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, police said. According to police, the vehicle was monitoring the sensitive sites in Quetta when some unidentified armed men on motorbike attack it by a hand grenade, injuring 15 people....

TEHRAN (FNA)- A suicide bomber killed five people and wounded 15, including a senior officer, at the funeral of a Pakistani policeman in the Western city of Quetta on Thursday, police said. The bomb went off as senior officers prepared to offer prayers for their colleague, gunned down earlier on Thursday, Reuters reported. Quetta is home to ...