*ISLAMABAD – Pakistan will be fencing its 950 kilometre-long border withIran to maintain security and peace, says Foreign Minister Shah MahmoodQureshi.*
An alliance has come forward by the name of BRA, said Qureshi. He wasspeaking to the media in Islamabad on Saturday This alliance has takenresponsibility for the terror attack on the Makran Coastal Highway inOrmara, a remote area in Balochistan, which claimed the lives of 14passengers on April 18 after offloading them from passenger buses.
Mohsin Hassan Butt, inspector-general of the Balochistan police, had saidthat around 15 to 20 gunmen wearing camouflage uniforms stopped up to sixpassenger buses travelling between Gwadar and Karachi and shot 14passengers dead.
Qureshi said these gunmen were from the BRA which was based in Iran. Thetrading and logistical camps of this new alliance are based in Iran. “Wehave shared actionable evidence with Iran and taken them into confidenceover the matter,” said Qureshi.
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The locations of the camps have been shared with Iran, he said, hoping thatIran – a brother country of Pakistan – takes action against the BRA. Healso appealed to Afghanistan to take action as the alliance is also presentthere.
