Authorities in Pakistan on Monday interrogated 12 Iranians who were arrested for illegally crossing the border with Iran, Pakistan officials said. "There are 12 Iranians who have been arrested along with two vehicles," Mohammad Akbar Durrani, home secretary of Pakistan's western province of Baluchistan, which borders Iran, told AFP. "They are being interrogated," Durrani said, declining to give any details on the men's identities. "We informed the Foreign Office about the arrests," he added. A border official said 11 Iranian Revolutionary Guards were arrested after they crossed the border into Pakistan, but he spoke on condition of anonymity and there was no other confirmation. A paramilitary spokesman said only that "some Iranians" who intruded four kilometres (2.4 miles) into Pakistani territory were arrested at Mashkail, around 400 kilometres (240 miles) west of Quetta. Al-Alam, the Iranian TV news channel, rejected reports that the men were Revolutionary Guards, and quoted an "informed source" as saying negotiations were under way to secure the release of the men, who were border guards.
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