PAKISTAN recalled its ambassador to Tehran today after the south-west of the country was hit by Iranian air strikes supposedly targeting the bases of a militant Sunni separatist group. 

Islamabad angrily denounced Tuesday’s attack on Baluchistan province as a blatant violation of its airspace and said it had killed two children.

The air strikes imperilled diplomatic relations between the two neighbours, but both sides appeared wary of provoking the other.