Further developments:
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Pakistan arrests 12 Iranians for illegal infiltration: officials
QUETTA: Authorities in Pakistan on Monday interrogated 12 Iranians who were arrested for illegally crossing the border with Iran, Pakistan officials said.
‘There are 12 Iranians who have been arrested along with two vehicles,’ Mohammad Akbar Durrani, home secretary of Balochistan, told AFP.
‘They are being interrogated,’ Durrani said, declining to give any details on the men's identities.
‘We informed the Foreign Office about the arrests,’ he added.
A border official said 11 Iranian Revolutionary Guards were arrested after they crossed the border into Pakistan, but he spoke on condition of anonymity and there was no other confirmation.
A paramilitary spokesman said only that ‘some Iranians’ who intruded four kilometres (2.4 miles) into Pakistani territory were arrested at Mashkail.
Al-Alam, the Iranian TV news channel, rejected reports that the men were Revolutionary Guards, and quoted an ‘informed source’ as saying negotiations were under way to secure the release of the men, who were border guards.
‘No Revolutionary Guards were arrested,’ Al-Alam quoted its source as saying.
‘A border patrol group (not Revolutionary Guards) were detained while chasing a vehicle which went into the Pakistani side. There is ongoing negotiation for their release.’
Iran says that those behind an October 18 attack that killed 42 people, including 15 members of its elite Revolutionary Guards, sneaked across the Pakistan border.
On Monday, Guards chief Mohammad Ali Jafari once again ramped up pressure on Islamabad to hand over Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of the rebel group Jundallah (Soldiers of God) who Tehran says is based in Pakistan.
‘We are expecting this (Pakistani) government to cooperate with Iran in apprehending this guy (Rigi),’ he said, adding that Islamabad was under the ‘influence and pressure of America.’
Islamabad has strongly denied that the Jundallah attack was launched from its territory.
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Frankly, I do not see any credible evidence presented which proves them "Revolutionary Guards". Even the BBC report does not justify the Guards claim. They may well be border forces. Like I said, the ISPR/government
must release more information.