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...repeatedly complained to Islamabad about cross-border attacks mounted by Jundullah, a shadowy Baluch militant group that uses Pakistani Baluchistan as a staging ground for attacks inside Iran. On May 28, the group claimed responsibility for a bombing that killed at least 20 in the border town of Zahedan. Iran and Pakistan have also been at loggerheads over Afghanistan - Tehran has backed the Karzai government, and Pakistan is seen as continuing to covertly support the Taliban - and over the perception that Pakistan is not doing much to stem anti-Shi'ite sectarian terrorism by extremist groups on its own soil...
...border. Early last December, two Soviet intelligence agents were killed during a chance encounter with a Pakistani intelligence unit patrolling the border. At about the same time, Salim Ahmed, a Pakistani spy who had ventured into Iranian territory, was captured by Soviet and Iranian patrols and executed in Zahedan...
...place to look for the Soviets, TIME has learned, is 300 miles north in a remote corner of Baluchistan, near Zahedan, where the Iranian, Pakistani and Afghan frontiers meet to form a triangular no man's land. For centuries, the mountainous border area had been controlled by fierce Baluchi tribesmen, who freely traverse the borders of the three countries. The area is also used by opium smugglers and roamed by packs of wild, emaciated desert dogs...
...travel to Pakistan. To confuse and elude the men who were trailing me, I made numerous appointments with important government officials on my home telephone, which I knew was tapped, and laid a false trail. Then I sneaked out of my home early one morning and flew to Zahedan, in southeastern Iran. With me I took a friend, Mirza Hashem Hosseini, and his wife, whose house had been raided and looted by a gang claiming to be Islamic Guards. Also with us was another friend, Farhad Yaqubian, who had been arrested and beaten. His crime: he had dropped...
Eight years ago Poolad was digging a well at Zahedan, in southeastern Iran. The well caved in. "For two hours," Poolad remembered, "all the mud and dirt crushed down upon me and I stood, back bent, holding it. Something broke inside my back. Since then I walk with a stick. My back and legs hurt very much. I stoop. Before I was hurt, I was taller by four or five inches. I sold my land and my cattle. Now I live on charity, I who ran faster than the camels...