INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Pakistan said on Monday Iran&s foreign minister will visit the country next week, signaling efforts to mend relations after the neighbours
exchanged missile strikes last week at what they said were militant targets.Ambassadors of both countries have also been asked to return to
26, the Pakistani foreign ministry said in a statement
Iran&s foreign ministry confirmed that Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian would visit on Monday, and said its ambassador would resume
duties in Islamabad on Friday, Reuters reported.Pakistan had recalled its ambassador to Tehran and had not allowed his counterpart to return
to Islamabad, as well as cancelling all high-level diplomatic and trade engagements.&At the invitation of Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas
Jilani, Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, will undertake a visit to Pakistan on 29 January 2024,&
a Pakistani foreign office statement said.The tit-for-tat strikes by the two countries were the highest-profile cross-border intrusions in
recent years and have raised alarm about wider instability in the region since the war between Israel and Hamas erupted on Oct
7.The two Muslim nations have had a history of rocky relations, but the intrusions amounted to the highest level of attacks in
decades.Islamabad said it hit bases of the separatist Baloch Liberation Front and Baloch Liberation Army, while Tehran said its missiles
struck militants from the Jaish al Adl (JAA) group.The militant groups operate in an area that includes Pakistan&s southwestern province
of Balochistan and Iran&s southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan province
Both regions are restive, mineral-rich and largely underdeveloped.Iran said the strikes in a border village on its territory killed nine
people, including four children
Pakistan said the Iranian attack had killed two children.The post Iran&s FM to visit Pakistan to rebuild ties after missile strikes first
