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Ambassadors of both countries have also been asked to return to
their posts by Jan. 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.
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.
(Reporting by Gibran Peshimam and Parisa Hafezi; writing by
Shivam Patel and Asif Shahzad; editing by YP Rajesh, Ros Russell
and Mark Heinrich)
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