Team News Riveting
After India and the United States (US), now Iran had managed to infiltrate Pakistan’s borders and conduct a surgical strike to free its soldiers.
According to news reports, Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) on Tuesday freed its two soldiers, who were among the 12 soldiers kidnapped in 2018.
“A successful operation was carried out last Tuesday night to rescue two kidnapped border guards who were taken as hostages by Jaish ul-Adl organization two and a half years ago,” the IRGC was quoted as saying in an official statement on Wednesday.
After India in LAC and Balakot, and the US in Abbottabad, Iran has become the third country to conduct surgical strikes in Pakistan, a country infamous for harbouring terrorists. The Shia dominated country was planning the strikes for over two years now.
The state agencies reported that a Pakistan-based radical Wahhabi terrorist group ‘Jaish ul-Adl’ had on October 16, 2018, kidnapped 12 IRGC guards to the Pakistani territory in the city of Merkava in Sistan and Balochistan province on the border between the two countries.
Tehran immediately went back to the drawing board and formed a joint committee between the two countries to free the guards. With sustained pressure, Iran managed to free five of the 12 soldiers, who were released in November 2018. Meanwhile, another four Iranian soldiers were rescued by the Pakistani army on March 21, 2019.
It is imperative to note that Jaish ul-Adl, or Jaish al-Adl, is a Salafi jihadist militant organization that mainly operates in southeastern Iran and with a majority of Sunni Baluchis as its member on the border between Iran and Pakistan.
Tehran has classified it as a terrorist organisation as Jaish claims to be waging an armed struggle against the Iranian government, saying it defends the rights of Baloch Sunnis in Iran.
