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Pakistan-Iran decide to form joint security commission
Islamabad, Nov 26, IRNA -- Pakistan and Iran on Thursday decided to form a Joint Security Commission to ensure safety at border and stop criminal activities and smuggling.
Addressing a joint press conference, Minister for Interior Rehman Malik and Iranian Minister for Interior Mostafa Muhammad Najar said that Secretary of Interior of both countries met to make a strategy for establishment of a joint commission.
They said both countries have also decided to issue special cards to those who regularly cross Pak-Iran border.
Iranian Minister for Interior said that it has been decided that both countries will extend cooperation to make the border areas more safer particularly to control terrorism activities and human trafficking.
He said Iranian people and government have extended full support to the victims of flood affected people of Pakistan and assured that this support will continue till start of reconstruction phase.
Rehman Malik thanked the government of Iran for its generous support to flood victims.
He said both countries have decided to increase their personnel of security forces at border to stop any illegal movement.
The Iranian Minister is in Pakistan to attend the ministerial meeting of the
Triangular Initiative.
Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan under Triangular Initiative (TI) on Thursday expressed firm resolve to strengthen regional cooperation in combating drug trafficking.
The regional Triangle also devised a 21-point Action plan through which a comprehensive anti-drug campaigns would be launched to effectively deal with the menace.
In 2007, the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) launched the Triangular Initiative to strengthen cooperation in law enforcement between the three countries most seriously affected by illicit opiates trafficked from Afghanistan.
The Minister of Counter Narcotics of Afghanistan, Zarar Ahmad Moqbal Osmani, the Secretary-General of the Drug Control Headquarters of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Eng Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, and the Federal Minister for Narcotics Control of Pakistan, Arbab Muhammad Zahir, agreed to increase cooperation between law enforcement officials.
Earlier, at the meeting, the Ministers committed to expanding the work of the Joint Planning Cell in Tehran, which aims at sharing information and organizing joint operations aimed at seizing illicit drugs./end
Addressing a joint press conference, Minister for Interior Rehman Malik and Iranian Minister for Interior Mostafa Muhammad Najar said that Secretary of Interior of both countries met to make a strategy for establishment of a joint commission.
They said both countries have also decided to issue special cards to those who regularly cross Pak-Iran border.
Iranian Minister for Interior said that it has been decided that both countries will extend cooperation to make the border areas more safer particularly to control terrorism activities and human trafficking.
He said Iranian people and government have extended full support to the victims of flood affected people of Pakistan and assured that this support will continue till start of reconstruction phase.
Rehman Malik thanked the government of Iran for its generous support to flood victims.
He said both countries have decided to increase their personnel of security forces at border to stop any illegal movement.
The Iranian Minister is in Pakistan to attend the ministerial meeting of the
Triangular Initiative.
Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan under Triangular Initiative (TI) on Thursday expressed firm resolve to strengthen regional cooperation in combating drug trafficking.
The regional Triangle also devised a 21-point Action plan through which a comprehensive anti-drug campaigns would be launched to effectively deal with the menace.
In 2007, the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) launched the Triangular Initiative to strengthen cooperation in law enforcement between the three countries most seriously affected by illicit opiates trafficked from Afghanistan.
The Minister of Counter Narcotics of Afghanistan, Zarar Ahmad Moqbal Osmani, the Secretary-General of the Drug Control Headquarters of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Eng Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, and the Federal Minister for Narcotics Control of Pakistan, Arbab Muhammad Zahir, agreed to increase cooperation between law enforcement officials.
Earlier, at the meeting, the Ministers committed to expanding the work of the Joint Planning Cell in Tehran, which aims at sharing information and organizing joint operations aimed at seizing illicit drugs./end
