Pakistan hits ‘terrorist hideouts’ in Iran, kills 9

Pakistan on Thursday launched air strikes in Iran, aiming at Baloch groups. This comes two days after Iran’s strikes on Pakistani soil. “This morning Pakistan undertook a series of highly coordinated and specifically targeted precision military strikes against terrorist hideouts in Siestan-o-Baluchistan province of Iran,” a foreign ministry statement said, adding that a “number of terrorists were killed”. Several missiles launched from Pakistan’s direction hit a border village in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan province, a security official said .