13 May, 2017
Foreign Office spokesperson Nafees Zakaria said the Iranian envoy was told that Tehran should refrain from making statements that can harm bilateral relations.
On Tuesday Pakistan's foreign office said the comments went "against the spirit of brotherly relations".
The spokesman particularly pointed to the May 3 visit of the Iranian foreign minister who had met Pakistani civil and military leaders leading both sides agreeing to enhance cooperation on the border issues.
He added, "Iran's soil has never been abused against any of its neighbours, including Pakistan".
In relevant remarks on Monday, Chief of Staff of the Iran's Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri warned that the country will launch attacks against terrorists' hideouts in Pakistan if they continue aggression and killing of the Iranian border guards. The militants claimed responsibility for attacks that killed eight border guards in April 2015 and 14 border guards in October 2013.
Iran said a Sunni terrorist group Jaish al Adl, had shot the guards with long-range guns, fired from inside Pakistan.
Ten Iranian border guards died in the attack.
Officials said the two governments also agreed "in principle to revive a hotline" between their border security forces to resolve any issues at the frontier.
The border area has always been plagued by unrest from both drug smuggling gangs and separatist terrorists.
Islamabad maintains it is extending full cooperation to the neighboring country to deal with the terrorist threat and has in the past handed over fugitive Iranian militants.
Independent observers believe aggressive posturing by Iran could possibly be linked to recent move by Pakistan allowing the former army chief General (retd) Raheel Sharif to lead a Saudi-led alliance against terrorism.
On the recent naxal attacks, Ahir said, a meeting of 10 chief ministers of naxal affected states was held at New Delhi yesterday and strategies to tackle the problem were discussed.
