Iran offers condolences to Pakistan

TEHRAN,April 23(MNA) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani, and First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi sent separate messages of condolence to Pakistani nation and government on Saturday and Sunday over the death of a number of Pakistani nationals in a plane crash. A Pakistani airliner with 127 people on board crashed in bad weather as it came in to land in Islamabad on Friday, scattering wreckage, and killing all the passengers and crew, according to Reuters.