Iran on Friday offered its help in mending relations between India and Pakistan, amid flared tensions after the Pahalgam terror attack. Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said Tehran stands ready to use its good offices in Islamabad and New Delhi to “forge greater understanding at this difficult time.”
Agarchi had condemned the Pahalgam attack “strongly and unequivocally” two days ago.
Terrorists opened fire in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on Tuesday, killing 26 people, mostly tourists, in the deadliest attack in the Valley since the Pulwama strike in 2019. The Resistance Front (TRF), a proxy of the banned Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), claimed responsibility for the attack.
In a post on X, Araghchi drew attention to how India and Pakistan are “brotherly neighbours” of Iran, enjoying relations rooted in centuries-old cultural and civilizational ties and how, like other neighbours, Iran considers the two of them as “our foremost priority.”
The lines by Saadi he invoked are: ‘Human Beings are members of a whole In creation of one essence and soul If one member is inflicted with pain Other members uneasy will remain.’
Top developments of the day:
The UN has asked India and Pakistan to ‘exercise maximum restraint and to ensure that the situation and the developments we have seen do not deteriorate any further’.
Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi has reached Srinagar, J&K and is being briefed by the 15 Corps Commander on the security situation and actions being taken by the formations against terrorists inside own territory and Pakistan Army attempts to violate the ceasefire along the LoC.
Two security personnel were injured in an exchange of fire with terrorists in Bandipora district. The gun fight erupted between security forces and terrorists in the Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir this morning, according to officials.
IndiGo has issued a travel advisory after closure of airspace by Pakistan. (Agencies )
