TEHRAN, Jul 16 (NNN-TASNIM) – Iran and Pakistan, yesterday, highlighted the necessity of expanding cooperation to ensure security along their common border.
Chief Commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Hossein Salami, and Pakistani Chief of Army Staff, Asim Munir, met in Tehran, to discuss enhancing security cooperation against “terrorist groups and operations” in regions along the two countries’ shared border.
Salami stressed the importance of carrying out bilateral cooperation in countering terrorist groups and security threats along their common border, noting that, Iran views Pakistan’s security as important as its own.
He also voiced the IRGC’s readiness to cooperate with the Pakistani army, to ensure security along the common border.
The Pakistani army chief, for his part, underlined the importance of increasing defence and security interactions between the two countries.
He said, Pakistan is ready to enhance cooperation with Iran and choose the best solutions to resolve problems and challenges stemming from terrorists’ activities in border areas.
Bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan, the south-eastern Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan has been a target of terrorist attacks over the past few years.
On Jul 8, two policemen and four “terrorists” were killed in an armed “terrorist attack” on a police station in the province.
Jaish ul-Adl, a Salafi Islamist militant organisation, which Iran designated as a terrorist group, has claimed responsibility for the attack.– NNN-TASNIM
