Tehran, IRNA – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif thanked Iran for its help in extinguishing the wildfire in the country’s Balochistan Province.

In a message to Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi on Thursday, Sharif evaluated Iran’s dispatching of an Ilyushin Il-76 firefighter jet as being valuable and facilitating the attempts to fight the fire.

Previously, a spokesperson for the province’s local government told IRNA that the fire in the forests have been extinguished after Iran’s firefighter jet joint the Pakistani forces.

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