caroline davies. a missile attack by iran on its neighbour, pakistan, would be near unprecedented. now, in the early hours here in pakistan, the country s foreign ministry has said that there has been an explosion after an air attack that it has blamed on iran. now, this would make pakistan the third country in a matter of days to be hit by an attack from iran after it s also hit syria and iraq. now, the explosion happened in a pakistani village that is located in the border regions of pakistan and iran, and that is an area known as balochistan. it is pakistan s largest but least populated region in the south west of the country. now, earlier on, state media from iran said that the military had used drones and missiles to hit militant groups in the area. those reports were subsequently removed without explanation, according to the news agency ap. now, the group have said that they were targeting at the time the news agencies had said that they were targeting a militant group