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Article: Pakistan releases 11 Iranian guards after cross-border incursion.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- October 27, 2009
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Byline: Huma Yusuf
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Pakistani authorities on Tuesday released 11 Iranians - initially identified as members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard - who had been detained a day earlier for trespassing on Pakistani soil. The guards were arrested on Monday in the Mashkhel area near the Iran-Pakistan border eight days after a suicide bomber in Iran's Sistan-Balochistan province killed 42 people, including Revolutionary Guard commanders.
That attack heightened tensions between the two as Iran alleged those responsible were based in Pakistan. Islamabad denied the accusation.
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