 Pakistan's Air Force launched retaliatory airstrikes in Iran allegedly targeting militant hideouts, an attack that killed at least nine people and further raised tensions between the neighboring nations Pakistan reacted to the Iranian strike, which killed two children and injured three others, by calling it unacceptable and said the country reserves the right to respond to this illegal act. Pakistan had earlier recalled its envoy from Tehran in a series of moves to show its displeasure with. The Iranian attack. It also said that it would bar Iran's ambassador to Islamabad, who is currently out of Pakistan, from returning to the mission, the strike's imperiled diplomatic relations between the two neighbors, as Iran and nuclear-armed Pakistan have long regarded each other with suspicion over militant attacks. Each nation also faces its own internal political pressures, and the strikes may in part be in response to that. The two countries have accused each other of providing safe haven to the groups in their respective territories.