- Senate chairman highlights four-point agenda with Iran to strengthen relations
Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani called on Iranian President Hassan Rouhani here in the Iranian capital on Monday and felicitated him on assuming the office of the president for the second term.
Issues relating to the Pak-Iran relations as well as the situation in the region came under discussion during the meeting. The Senate chairman highlighted the four-point agenda, which Pakistan would like to pursue with Iran.
It included energy and connectivity, greater economic interaction, addressing the security issues and forging closer parliamentary relations between the two countries. He thanked Iran for its principled stand on Kashmir, which was recently expressed by Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Rabbani also apprised President Rouhani about the plight of the Kashmiri people, who were suffering the worst kind of torture at the hands of the Indian forces, which were using new tactics of brutalities, including pallet guns. Hundreds of innocent Kashmiris had been blinded as a result of the brutalities, he added.
President Rouhani recalled his two visits to Pakistan during the last year and hoped that the cordial relations between the two countries would grow from strength to strength. The delegation included senators Mir Mohammad Yousuf Badini, Hidayatullah, Ghous Mohammad Khan Niazi and Raheela Magsi, and Ambassador Asif Durrani.
