TEHRAN, Jan 27 (NNN-IRNA) – Pakistan’s Ambassador to Iran, Muhammad Mudassir Tipu, left Islamabad yesterday, for Iran’s capital, to resume his diplomatic duties.
Announcing his return in a post on social media platform X, Mudassir Tipu said, he was en route to Tehran in “conformity with the sincere and good wishes of Pakistan’s leadership.”
“A strong Pakistan and Iran were critical for the region and to promote historic people-to-people ties,” and it was “time to turn a new leaf,” he noted.
In a joint press statement on Monday, Iran and Pakistan said, they had mutually agreed that both countries’ ambassadors would return to their respective posts by Friday.
The statement added, the decision had been made following the telephone conversation between the Pakistani Foreign Minister, Jalil Abbas Jilani and his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.
It said, Amir-Abdollahian would also pay a visit to Pakistan on Jan 29, at the invitation of Jilani.
Iranian Ambassador to Pakistan, Reza Amiri Moqaddam, who had left for Iran on Jan 16, also returned to Pakistan yesterday, according to the Iranian Students’ News Agency.
On Jan 18, Pakistan carried out a missile strike on a border village in the south-eastern Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned the Pakistani charge d’affaires in Tehran, later in the day, to voice Iran’s official protest against Pakistan’s military move.
The Pakistani strikes came, after an Iranian attack killed two children and injured another three in Pakistan’s Balochistan province. Pakistan condemned “Iran’s violation of its airspace” and recalled its ambassador from Iran.– NNN-IRNA
