Opening ceremony of the 7th International Conference on Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development held at Mehran University

 Wednesday, February 19, 2025 Hyderabad (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 19th February, 2025) The opening ceremony of the 7th International Conference on Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development organized by Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, was held. Addressing the opening ceremony, Energy Sector Expert Engineer Irfan Ahmed said that an environmentally friendly energy transition is taking place, electricity is being generated from wind and solar energy, there are many wind power generation projects in Sindh and wind power is also cheap. He said that if the equipment is made in Pakistan, the cost of the projects will be reduced because at present most of the equipment is being purchased from abroad. He said that Pakistan has a lot of natural and natural sources and resources to generate environmentally friendly energy, but we are not using them properly. Engineer Irfan Ahmed said that due to the cost of buying equipment for wind power generation pr...

Pakistan-Iran border attack, several Iranian security personnel killed

 Monday 11 November 2024


Islamabad (News International. DW New. November 11, 2024) Iran's official news agency IRNA, another Iranian news agency Fars and local media also reported the incident and said that Iran's troubled southeastern region adjacent to Pakistan. At least five members of Iran's security forces were killed in a "terrorist attack" on Sunday in the area, where authorities were conducting operations against the rebels.


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According to the Fars news agency, "Five members of the security forces were killed in a terrorist attack in the town of Sarawan, south of Sistan-Baluchistan province."


Fars said that after the attack in Sarawan, "units deployed in the region have been ordered to take swift action to pursue the criminals."



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The report said that the dead belonged to the Basij Force, an ethnic Baloch ethnic and paramilitary force of the Revolutionary Guards. Saravan is about 1,400 km southeast of the capital Tehran.


No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.


Intensification of Iran's action against militants

A day earlier, state TV reported that Revolutionary Guard forces killed three terrorists and arrested nine others.


However, the authorities did not say which group the suspects belong to.


Last month, unknown gunmen killed four people, including the Revolutionary Guards chief, in Sistan-Baluchistan province.


Following the October attack, Iranian forces have launched a major operation in the area.


Also in September, militants killed four border guards in two separate attacks in Sistan-Baluchistan.


One of the attacks, in which an officer and two soldiers were killed, was later claimed by Pakistan-based Sunni militant group Jaish-ul-Adl. The group demands more rights for ethnic Baloch.


It should be noted that Iran and the United States have declared Jaish-ul-Adl as a banned organization. However, Jaish-ul-Adl is not among the dozens of organizations banned by the Pakistani government.


Two Iranian police officers were killed near the Pakistani border


Sistan-Baluchistan borders both Afghanistan and Pakistan and is one of the poorest provinces in Iran. It is one of the few predominantly Sunni Muslim provinces in Shia-majority Iran.


For years it has faced unrest between drug-trafficking gangs, insurgents from the Baloch minority and Sunni extremists.


About 15 militants have been reported killed in Sistan-Baluchistan province since the October attack, including three on Sunday, Iranian state television said.

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