Pakistani and Iranian officials met in Tehran Wednesday where the two sides agreed on intelligence cooperation at the porous border between the two neighbouring countries.
“The two sides agreed to boost intelligence cooperation with regard to border security,” said Khan Wasey, a Frontier Corps (FC) spokesman.
“Cooperation between the two countries in battling terrorists is indispensable,” he added.
The meeting was held between FC Balochistan Inspector General (IG) Major General Ejaz Shahid and Iranian border force chief General Qasim Razai to discuss ways and means to end border skirmishes, Wasay reportedly said.
The meeting was called in wake of the recent flare up at the 900-kilometre Pak-Iran border.
On October 18, around 30 Iranian border guards stormed inside Pakistan and took the residents of Pakistan’s border town Nokundi, hostage. They also attacked and killed an FC soldier and injured three others in Tehsil Mand of Balochistan’s District Kech.
Meanwhile, Balochistan Home Secretary Akbar Hussain Durrani reportedly said that a joint border commission’s meeting between Pakistan and Iran was scheduled to be held in Tehran on November 9 and 10. He said the officials from the two countries would participate in the meeting to discuss border issues.
The two countries have formed a joint border commission with the objective to discuss issues pertaining to territorial violations.
