Ahmadinejad to Zardari: hand over 'terrorists'

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told his counterpart Asif Ali Zardari on Monday to arrest and hand over "known terrorists," the Iranian leader's office said on its website. In a telephone call, the Iranian president "asked Zardari to order his country's security forces to quickly arrest known terrorists and hand them over to the Islamic Republic of Iran," Ahmadinejad's office said in a statement posted on its website.
The phone call followed a suicide attack last week in city of Chabahar that killed 39 people during a Shia mourning procession. The attack was claimed by Jundallah (Army of God). "The perpetrators of this act are not only non-Muslims, but belong to no religion," the website quoted Ahmadinejad as telling Zardari. The website said that Zardari told Ahmadinejad Pakistan would not hesitate to help eradicate terrorism.
Earlier on Monday, Iran hanged 11 members of Jundallah in Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan. Iran hanged 11 people linked to the Sunni group that killed 39 people in a mosque bombing, the Justice Ministry said on Monday, and an army official urged Pakistan to root out the "terrorists" across the border.
"The people of Sistan-Baluchestan province, in their continuing campaign against the elements of cruelty and insecurity, hanged 11 people at Zahedan prison," the ministry said in a statement on the semi-official Fars news agency. It said those executed were all supporters of Jundollah.
The families of the bombing victims sent a letter to President Asif Ali Zardari calling for "serious measures" against Jundollah and other "terrorist" groups, echoing a call from some Iranian officials. "These anti-revolutionary groups which have been given shelter in neighbouring countries like Pakistan and are being supported there should be pursued and suppressed on Pakistani soil," Qolamali Rashid, a senior military official, said according to Fars.
"The land forces of the Revolutionary Guard have the ability to do this," he said, referring to Iran's elite military force. A member of parliament's national security and foreign policy committee said on Sunday that "Pakistan should be served notice" to destroy what he called terrorist training camps. "If the Pakistan government refused to take measures to destroy the terrorist centres in that country, then the Islamic Republic would have the right to take steps and make the atmosphere unsafe for the terrorists in defence of its own nationals," Kazem Jalali told the semi-official Mehr news agency.