Pakistan shuts border with Iran as Tehran trades strikes with Israel


Pakistani security personnel check the documents of people who came from Iran at the Pakistan-Iran border in Taftan on June 16, 2025. Pakistan has closed all its border crossings with neighbouring Iran for an indefinite period, provincial officials said on June 16, as Israel and Iran trade intense strikes and threaten further attacks. - AFP

QUETTA: Pakistan has closed all its border crossings with neighbouring Iran for an indefinite period, provincial officials said on Monday (June 15), as Israel and Iran trade intense strikes and threaten further attacks.

"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 AFP.

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