2024 Iran–Pakistan border skirmishes

2024 Iran–Pakistan border skirmishes
	Part of the Insurgency in Balochistan
	; Location of Iran (green) and Pakistan (orange)
Date	16 January – 18 January 2024; (2 days)
Location	Balochistan (Iran and Pakistan)
Result	Status quo ante bellum Iranian missile strikes in Pakistan's Balochistan on 16 January; Pakistani air strikes, drone strikes and artillery strikes in Iran's Sistan and Baluchestan on 18 January; Agreement by both countries to de-escalate tensions along the Iran–Pakistan border on 19 January;
Belligerents
IranClaimed by Pakistan:; Balochistan Liberation Army; Balochistan Liberation Front	PakistanClaimed by Iran:; Jaish ul-Adl
Commanders and leaders
Ali Khamenei ; (Supreme Leader of Iran) ; Ebrahim Raisi ; (President of Iran) ; Hossein Salami ; (C-i-C of the IRGC) Basheer Zeb; Allah Nazar Baloch	Arif Alvi ; (President of Pakistan); Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar (Prime Minister of Pakistan) ; Zaheer Ahmad Babar (Chief of the Air Staff) Salahuddin Farooqui
Units involved
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps	Pakistan Air Force
Casualties and losses
	9 foreign nationals killed in Iran (18 January); 2 killed and 4 wounded in Pakistan (16 January)

On 16 January 2024, Iran conducted a series of missile strikes in Pakistan, asserting that it had targeted militants of the Baloch separatist group Jaish ul-Adl in the Pakistani province of Balochistan. This attack occurred one day after a similar series of Iranian missile strikes in Iraq and Syria, which the Iranian government had stated were in response to the Kerman bombings by the Islamic State on 3 January. Pakistan's government condemned the strikes as an "unprovoked violation" of Pakistani airspace and stated that two children had been killed.

Two days later, on 18 January, Pakistan conducted a retaliatory series of missile strikes in Iran, asserting that it had targeted militants of the Balochistan Liberation Army and the Balochistan Liberation Front in the Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan. Iran's government condemned the strikes and stated that nine people had been killed, including four children. Pakistani airstrikes marked the first known instance of foreign country launching attacks on Iranian soil since the end of Iran-Iraq war 1988.

Communicating through diplomatic channels on 19 January, both countries agreed to de-escalate and cooperate along the Iran–Pakistan border. Pakistan recalled the Iranian ambassador to Islamabad and reinstated the Pakistani ambassador in Tehran.

Foreign Minister of Iran Hossein Amir-Abdollahian visited Pakistan on 29 January 2024 at the invitation of Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani in a push to diffuse the standoff.

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