Source: Iran, Pakistan keen to cooperate on security issues_English_Xinhua
Iran, Pakistan keen to cooperate on security issues
English_Xinhua
TEHRAN, March 1 (Xinhua) -- Iran and Pakistan on Sunday expressed their willingness to cooperate in security, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Iranian Interior Minister Sadeq Mahsouli and visiting Pakistani Interior Ministry's advisor Rehman Malik voiced the countries' keenness during their talks on ways to develop security cooperation to fight "organized crimes, human and drug trafficking and kidnapping," according to IRNA.
The two sides have agreed on holding meetings of their interior ministers on the basis of regular intervals said the reports.
Malik arrived here on Saturday for an a one-day visit to Iran.
Iran has greatly and constantly suffered from lack of workable security measures in its eastern and southeastern borders.
In January, Iran's judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi said that in a fresh attack, 12 Iranian border policemen had been killed in an ambush by rebels on the Pakistani border.
An Iranian Sunni rebel group based in southeastern Iran, the Jundullah (Soldiers of God), has constantly been blamed for offense and kidnappings in the region at the border zone with Pakistan.
The group, which is the target of Iran's border police operation, also killed 16 policemen it kidnapped in southeastern Iran in June.
The country has reiterated its claim that Iran's police is ready to help the Pakistani police to encounter and eradicate the rebels, the international bandits and the smugglers inside Pakistani territory, if Pakistani officials show willingness.
Iran also lies at the crossroads of drug smuggling from Afghanistan, and partly from Pakistan, to the West and has already been struggling in its battle against drug trafficking as well as drug abuse.
In November, Iran's Drug Control Headquarters (DCH) announced that it would seal all borders within two years to control drugs smuggling.
Editor: Mu Xuequan
Iran, Pakistan keen to cooperate on security issues
English_Xinhua
TEHRAN, March 1 (Xinhua) -- Iran and Pakistan on Sunday expressed their willingness to cooperate in security, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Iranian Interior Minister Sadeq Mahsouli and visiting Pakistani Interior Ministry's advisor Rehman Malik voiced the countries' keenness during their talks on ways to develop security cooperation to fight "organized crimes, human and drug trafficking and kidnapping," according to IRNA.
The two sides have agreed on holding meetings of their interior ministers on the basis of regular intervals said the reports.
Malik arrived here on Saturday for an a one-day visit to Iran.
Iran has greatly and constantly suffered from lack of workable security measures in its eastern and southeastern borders.
In January, Iran's judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi said that in a fresh attack, 12 Iranian border policemen had been killed in an ambush by rebels on the Pakistani border.
An Iranian Sunni rebel group based in southeastern Iran, the Jundullah (Soldiers of God), has constantly been blamed for offense and kidnappings in the region at the border zone with Pakistan.
The group, which is the target of Iran's border police operation, also killed 16 policemen it kidnapped in southeastern Iran in June.
The country has reiterated its claim that Iran's police is ready to help the Pakistani police to encounter and eradicate the rebels, the international bandits and the smugglers inside Pakistani territory, if Pakistani officials show willingness.
Iran also lies at the crossroads of drug smuggling from Afghanistan, and partly from Pakistan, to the West and has already been struggling in its battle against drug trafficking as well as drug abuse.
In November, Iran's Drug Control Headquarters (DCH) announced that it would seal all borders within two years to control drugs smuggling.
Editor: Mu Xuequan
