[5] The next day, Agha Shahi held talks with the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in which developments in the region were discussed. Does not have nuclear weapons. Iran was the first country to recognize Pakistan as an independent state, and Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the first head of any state to come on an official state visit to Pakistan (in March 1950). [5] Responding swiftly to this great revolutionary change, Foreign Minister of Pakistan Agha Shahi immediately paid a state visit to Tehran who met the Iranian counterpart Karim Sanjabi on March 10, 1979. [14] On 30 September 1950, Pakistan claimed that Afghan troops and tribesmen had crossed into Pakistan's Balochistan, but the low-scale invasion was repelled after six days of fighting. [10] However, it is important to note that, Afghan locals also often clash with Pakistan security forces alongside the Afghan security forces which is the reason for high Afghan civilian casualties. 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The Afghan government, having secured a treaty in December 1978 that allowed them to call on Soviet forces, repeatedly requested the introduction of troops in Afghanistan in the spring and summer of 1979. [11][12], Hostilities existed between Afghanistan and the newly independent Pakistan since 1947,[13] when Afghanistan became the only country to vote against the admission of Pakistan to the United Nations. Here are few of the reasons: 1. It is His Majesty's Government's view that Pakistan is in international law the inheritor of the rights and duties of the old Government of India and of his Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom in these territories and that the Durand Line is the international frontier.[23]. [5], In 1980, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein went on to the proposal which invaded Iran. He added: I realise that's tough. Since the starting and the ending of the Iran–Iraq War in the 1980s, the foreign policy of Pakistan respectively played a complex role in the conventional settlement of the Iran-Iraq war. [14] Afghanistan advocated the independence of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to form Pashtunistan,[15] although the region's predominant Pashtun population had voted overwhelmingly in favor of Pakistan over India in the referendum held in July 1947. The 1979 Soviet–Afghan War forced millions of Afghans to take refuge inside Pakistan. [6] There are reports of Pakistan financially helping Iran at the operational level. The then Afghan Prime Minister, Muhammad Hashim, said "if an independent Pashtunistan cannot be set up, the frontier province should join Afghanistan. [13] In 1949, Pakistan Air Force bombed the Afghan sponsored militant camps in border areas including an Afghan village to curb an unrest led by Ipi Faqir propagating independent Pashtunistan. [5] Reciprocating President Zia's sentiments, Imam Khomeini, in his letter, called for Muslim unity. At the 1956 SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization) Ministerial Council Meeting held at Karachi, capital of Pakistan at the time, it was stated: The members of the Council declared that their governments recognised that the sovereignty of Pakistan extends up to the Durand Line, the international boundary between Pakistan and Afghanistan, and it was consequently affirmed that the Treaty area referred to in Articles IV and VIII of the Treaty includes the area up to that Line.[24]. [22], Tensions soared with the Pakistani One Unit program, and both countries withdrew ambassadors and diplomatic staff in 1955. [1], According to the national security experts, the role of Pakistan in the Iran–Iraq War, however, was based more on maintaining a delicate balance. Pakistan Armed Forces (North-Western Command), The Diplomat claims that the presence of terrorists belonging to Tehrik-i-Taliban (Pakistan) on Afghan soil is the reason for sporadic shelling of Afghan territory by Pakistan security forces. [2] During the conflict, Pakistan sought to portray as "strictly neutral" but cultivated friendly relationship with Iran. The entire pursuit for nuclear power began at the beginning of 1970s. [3][4] In a state visit paid by President General Zia-ul-Haq to the United Kingdom in the mid-1980s, President Zia correctly predicted that the Iran–Iraq conflict "will end up in a military stalemate. According to the national security experts, the role of Pakistan in the Iran–Iraq War, however, was based more on maintaining a delicate balance. Since late 2001, as high as 140,000 NATO-led troops were stationed in Afghanistan to train Afghans and rebuild their war-torn country. Imperial Iran maintained close relations with Pakistan during the Cold War, partly owing to their mutual alliance with the United States-led Western Bloc. [14], The International border between the British Raj and Afghanistan was established after the 1893 Durand Line Agreement between British Mortimer Durand of the British Empire and Amir Abdur Rahman Khan of Afghanistan for fixing the limit of their respective spheres of influence. Guess in the first few days Pakistan AF will wipe IAF clean, then it is about ground war. The single-page agreement, which contains seven short articles, was signed by Durand and Khan, agreeing not to exercise political interference beyond the frontier line between what was then the Emirate of Afghanistan and what was also then the British Indian Empire. This was followed by the rise and fall of the Taliban government. This bombardment led to a brief hiatus in the skirmishes. I’m in no way a military expert (please keep this point in mind while reading this answer), but since no Iranian answered this question, and some users complained about this, I’m going to mention some points. Pakistani officials feared that the Soviet Union began some kind of military show down and that Pakistan or at least its Balochistan province was next on the Soviet agenda. [1] Conversely, Pakistan exported and sold numbers of Chinese and US made weapons to Iran, specifically the Silkworm and Stinger missiles which proved to be a crucial integrating factor in the Tanker War, originally bounded for Afghan mujahideen. [26][27] To counter the insurgency and bring stability in Afghanistan, the United States built bases and garrisons for the Afghan National Security Forces, and is using unmanned aerial vehicles to carry out drone attacks in Pakistan, mainly the Haqqani network in and around the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Pakistan is one of several nations that are not the part of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The Pakistani Embassy in Kabul and consulates in Kandhar and Jalalabad were attacked by mobs. The Afghans undertook to stop interference on the British side of the line in the subsequent Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919 in Rawalpindi. [2] Pakistan immediately deployed its military contingent to protect the Gulf states against the Iranian threat, placing ~40,000 military personnel in Saudi Arabia for security and training purposes. Already some great answers but here is my two cents, as a Pakistani I am willing to give it to Iran. [18] The Balochistan province of Pakistan was also included in the Greater Pastunistan definition to gain access to the Arabian sea in case Pakistan failed as a state,[13] as Afghanistan had expected. [13][14] In 1960, major skirmishes broke with the Afghan Forces massing out on the Afghan side of the border with tanks. Iran . Iran vs. Britain: Who Would Win if a War Starts? [21] Border clashes were reported in 1949–50 for the first time. [6] The Pakistan military officials strongly objected killing of Iranian pilgrim riot by Saudi Arabian army on the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in 1985.