Pakistan shuts border with Iran: Provincial officials
'Border facilities in all five districts -- Chaghi, Washuk, Panjgur, Kech and Gwadar -- have been suspended,' Qadir Bakhsh Pirkani, a senior official in Balochistan province, which borders Iran, told AFP.
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