Pakistan denies kidnapped Iranian guards ever on its soil

(MENAFN- Arab News) Lamabad: pakistan tuesday strongly denied that kidnapped iranian border guards were ever on its soil amid fresh efforts to improve fractured ties before prime minister nawaz sharif's visit to tehran.relations between the neighbors hit a low following the kidnapping by sunni extremists of five iranian border guards from iran's sistan-baluchestan province which adjoins pakistan in february.four of the soldiers were eventually freed and returned home in april. officials say the fate of the fifth soldier is unknown but he is assumed to have been killed.the jaish-ul adl ('army of justice" in arabic) rebel group which says it is fighting for the rights of sunni muslims in shiite-majority iran said last month the fifth guard had been executed in late march.pakistani interior minister chaudhry nisar ali khan denied the abducted men had ever crossed the border.'let me reiterate very categorically that those five iranian guards were never ever present in pakistan" he said.'so the question of fifth one being in pakistan is out of question." khan was speaking at a joint press conference in islamabad with his iranian counterpart abdolereza rahmani fazli.parliament votes to lift ban on youtubepakistan's parliament on tuesday voted unanimously to lift a ban on youtube in a non-binding resolution that was nonetheless welcomed by free speech campaigners as an important symbolic move.the video-sharing website has been blocked in pakistan since september 2012 over its hosting of the 'innocence of muslims" movie that sparked furious protests around the world.