Pakistan, Iran sign MoU for improved border management

Pakistan and Iran marked a Memorandum of Understanding on Sunday to enhance the circumstance at the fringe between the two nations, Radio Pakistan announced.

Amid the 21st two-day meeting of the Pak-Iran Joint Border Commission in Gwadar, joint proposition with respect to the fringe circumstance, security matters, movement and outskirt exchange between two nations went under dialog, the state-run every day included.

The two sides communicated their assurance to keep the carrying of medications, interruption of illicit workers and the utilization of their separate soils for psychological oppression, Radio Pakistan said.

Commonplace Chief Secretary Aurangzeb Haque drove the Pakistani side while Deputy Governor Sistan-Balochistan territory Ali Asghar Mir Shikari headed the Iranian assignment in the meeting.

A month ago, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Iranian President Muhammad Hassan Rouhani met on the sidelines of the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The two sides consented to "keep up a direction of positive advance" between the two nations.

President Rouhani was said to have underscored that the two nations should cooperate nearly in extending shared participation in the zones of fringe administration, exchange and venture.