Pakistan closes border crossings with Iran

Pakistan has shut all its border crossings with neighbouring Iran for an indefinite period.

“Border facilities in all five districts – Chaghi, Washuk, Panjgur, Kech and Gwadar – have been suspended,” Qadir Bakhsh Pirkani, a senior official in Balochistan province, which borders Iran, told the news agency.

Crossing into Iran “has been suspended until further notice”, said Attaul Munim, an official at one of the crossings in Chaghi district.

However, there was “no ban on trade” activities at the border, and Pakistani nationals needing to return to their country from Iran can cross, he added.“We’re expecting around 200 Pakistani students coming today,” Munim said.
 

Israeli army claims it destroyed 30pc of Iran’s missile launchers

More than 50 jets carried out air raids and destroyed at least 120 surface-to-surface missile launchers, the military says, as fighting between the two arch foes entered a fourth day.

“This amounts to one-third of the surface-to-surface missile launchers possessed by the Iranian regime,” military spokesman Brigadier-General Effie Defrin said in a televised statement.

After days of attacks on Iranian air defences and missile systems, the Israeli army said its aircraft now control the skies from western Iran to Tehran.

“Now we can say that we have achieved full air supremacy in the Tehran airspace,” said Defrin.

Source: Al Jazeera