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Pakistan said on Tuesday the airspace violation had resulted in
the deaths of two children after Iranian state media said
Iranian missiles targeted two bases of militant group Jaish al
Adl.
Pakistan has not confirmed the nature of the violation, or the
exact location. The foreign ministry spokeswoman did not mention
the children's deaths in her statement on Wednesday.
She said the violation was an unprovoked and blatant breach of
Pakistan's sovereignty and was "unacceptable".
"Pakistan reserves the right to respond to this illegal act,"
she said.
The strikes inside Pakistan came a day after similar attacks
carried out by Tehran inside other neighbors, Iraq and Syria.
Jaish al Adl has previously mounted attacks on Iranian security
forces in the border area with Pakistan
Baghdad has recalled its ambassador from Tehran after Iran's
state-backed media said it had hit an Israeli espionage centre.
Pakistan will also not allow Iran's ambassador, who is visiting
his home country, to return, the ministry's spokesperson said in
a statement.
Officials in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan,
which borders Iran, said that four missiles had hit the Panjgur
district close to the Iranian border.
"Four missiles were fired in the village of Koh-i-Sabaz which is
around 50 km inside Pakistan soil," a senior official of the
Panjgur administration told Reuters.
"A mosque and three houses were damaged in the attack," another
official said, adding that two young girls had been killed and
three other family members injured.
(Reporting by Asif Shahzad in Islamabad and Saleem Ahmed in
Quetta, Pakistan; Editing by YP Rajesh, Angus MacSwan and Nick
Macfie)
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