PAKISTAN HAS URGED IRAN TO CONDUCT A COMPREHENSIVE INVESTIGATION

Pakistan has urged Iran to conduct a “comprehensive investigation” after eight Pakistani migrant workers were killed over the weekend in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan province, which shares a border with Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province.

The attack took place on Saturday in Mehrestan county, located roughly 230km from the Pakistan border, where unidentified assailants attacked a workshop.

All eight workers – who belonged to various areas of Pakistan’s Punjab province and were working as mechanics – were tied up and shot dead.

The Baloch Nationalist Army (BNA), a lesser-known Baloch group seeking independence from Pakistan, has claimed responsibility for the attack.