Islamabad, Jan 17 (Reporter) Pakistan on Wednesday issued a strongly worded condemnation, denouncing what it described as the “unprovoked violation of its airspace by Iran." According to a Foreign Office (FO) statement, released after midnight, it resulted in the “deaths of two innocent children and injury of three girls." The statement did not mention the location where the casualties took place. But Iranian state media said the attack took place in the border town of Panjgur in Balochistan. Iran’s Tasnim news agency said the “focal point of this operation was the region known as Kouh-Sabz” in Balochistan. “Two key strongholds of the Jaysh al-Dhulm (Jaish al-Adl) terrorist group in Pakistan” were “specifically targeted and successfully demolished by a combination of missile and drone attacks," the Tasnim news agency said. Local authorities said they had also received information about such an attack but had no further details. Reports from the area suggested that a missile hit a mosque, partially damaging it and injuring some people. The strike came after Iran launched missile attacks on “spy headquarters” and “terrorist” targets in Syria, and in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, according to media reports. The FO vehemently protested the “violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty”, calling it “completely unacceptable” and warning it “can have serious consequences”, Dawn news reports. It expressed concern that the “illegal act” took place despite the existence of several established channels of communication between Pakistan and Iran, adding that a “strong protest has already been lodged with the concerned senior official in the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran”. “Pakistan has always said terrorism is a common threat to all countries in the region that requires coordinated action. Such unilateral acts are not in conformity with good neighbourly relations and can seriously undermine bilateral trust and confidence,” the statement concluded. Caretaker Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani in a phone call with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir Abdollahian had strongly condemned the terrorist attack and reaffirmed Pakis­tan’s commitment to Iran in combating terrorism. Similar attacks have occurred previously, including on July 23 last year when four policemen were killed while on patrol, according to Dawn news. That came two weeks after two policemen and four assailants were killed in a shootout in the province, claimed by Jaish Al Adl. In May, five Iranian border guards died in clashes with an armed group in Saravan, southeast of Zahedan, the provincial capital of Sistan-Baluchestan...////...