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Iranian President, PM Khan agree on closer cooperation in combatting terrorism
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday had a telephonic conversation with Iran's President Hassan Rouhani as part of his efforts to apprise important regional countries and their leadership of the regional situation, read a statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office.
The statement noted that the two leaders acknowledged the need to strengthen bilateral relations and to that end, "both sides look forward to the visit of Prime Minister Imran Khan to Iran in the near future".
With the visit, it is expected by both countries that bilateral coordination and cooperation will deepen.
The premier expressed his heartfelt condolences on the recent terrorist attack in Iran in which 27 Revolutionary Guards were killed, the PM Office statement said.
"Both leaders agreed on the need for closer cooperation among the two intelligence agencies in combatting terrorism," it added.
The statement further noted that the premier briefed the Iranian president on the latest developments regarding the situation with India and Pakistan's "untiring efforts to defuse the situation through dialogue, and for improving bilateral relations with India".
The prime minister "underscored the role of important brotherly countries like Iran to help in this situation", the statement said.
The prime minister also expressed his gratitude to the Iranian leadership "for their consistent and principled support for the people of Jammu and Kashmir", the statement added.
The PM Office, in its statement, said that President Rouhani considers Pakistan and Iran "neighbours and brotherly countries linked through centuries of closed historic cultural and people to people linkages".
President Rouhani further said that the two countries' role would "remain central in promoting peace, stability, and economic development in this important region", the statement said in conclusion.
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Pakistan should make alliance with the countries closer to us in language and culture, See if RCD can be revived
We should keep always Great relations with neighbors to prosper and fight poverty .
Good , eliminate all terrorists, Help to India also, IK is great leader. IK corrupt free, loves his country, doing good deeds,
Good move but don’t help Iran with nuclear plans anymore.
Good to have strong ties with all neighbours especially muslim countries. There are rumors that Iran was somehow involved with other countries in India’s attack on Pakistan.
It is nice to have very friendly relations with Iran. In the past Turkey, Iran and Pakistan had close ties, business prospered and all three countries did well. Once Afghanistan also achieves complete unified status of that country, it should also be invited to join the group...peace and prosperity will follow. With improving relations between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, the other three countries will also benefit. Once war clouds are removed between India and Pakistan, this country will be very helpful in improving trade in the area.
Excellent initiative by PM IK. Iran has been a close neighbour and brotherly nation. We must deepen.put.ties with them. Tourism must be enhanced between the two.
Will the Iran Pakistan gas pipeline proceed ?
Excellent we need to improve relations and trade with Iran.
Would be good if we can see some progress on Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline.
Well done. Pakistan is strong.
Love to Iran. Great brave nation. Bright nations home to so mo many great scientist. This list is too long to list. Persian have contributed a lot for modern day science. Almost half of Pakistan have roots in either Afghanistan or Iran.
PakPersia Blood Brothers 4 Life!
Good development. Iran and Pakistan are brotherly countries.
There has always been suspicion on both sides that India has taken advantage of. Maybe Iran and Pakistan should sign a non aggression pact. We have nothing against Iran.
Iranian are smart and reasonable people and they respect Pakistan and it’s people.
Iran, the first country to recognize Pakistan. A next-door neighbour, we should have an excellent relation.
You can change so many things, but you cannot change neighbors. Respect and love for neighbor is what our religion also teaches us. We are so happy to see that not only Iran, most of Pakistanis seek good relations with our other 2 neighbors Afghanistan and India too. The corpse of hatred and bigotry must be thrown out once and for all.
India, Afghanistan, USA, Iran and Bangladesh are nations which will defraud Pakistan and want to see Pakistan suffer. Best we completely cut off all communication with these fradulent nations.
Another great move by IK. For Pakistan to develop and to maintain a sustained development it need peace and stability with all its neighbors and especially Iran. We share land and sea border, religion, culture, shared history of Islam. Iran has consistently sided with Pakistan on Kashmir. Iran aided with Pakistan during 1965 Indian aggression. During tussle between Iran and The US unfortunately the US always seems to have got better of us and against Iran. We should have the courage and foresight to develop economic policies complementing each other and benefit from each other’s skills increasing our trade manifold. And we need to adopt policies where we can be friends with both Iran and Saudi Arabia. I am sure despite belligerencey from the US we can close cooperative relations with Iran.
Iran's cooperation is essential for the security in the region.
Iran is more interested in Having relations with India than Pakistan, as India buys oil from Iran and have. US waiver for that.
Pakistan should also fence the entire Pakistan Iran border.
Ask Iran to come clear about Kalboshan
Why none of the foreign leader release any statement of such talks?
Iran is neighbor. We must further improve our relationship with all our neighbors. India is seeking waiver for restriction of trade with Iran to purchase oil, we must also import gas from Iran by having waiver on embargo in trading with Iran.
Only way to solve issues between India and Pakistan is to accept current boundary as international. I personally don't see any other option. We have already lost 72 years on this.
Always keep channels of cummincation open between two countrires. Work on common interest. How about cultural ,in art exchanges! Pak religious travel to Iran!
This is going to irk Saudi Arabia.
Dont forget indian terrorist Kulbhushan jadhav entered Pakistan from Iran, Iran ignores indian attrcities in Kashmir to sell oil to indians, 'muslim brother' means nothing to Iranians, they cannot be trusted completely and we must always be on guard in case of treachery. We want friendly relations with neighbours but neighbours like Iran are not always sincere.
@Imran , No they dont they prefer india, we must not be naive they cannot be trusted completely, they tried to create sectarianism on our soil by fighting proxy war with Saudis; build friendly relations but trust them not.
Before you say nice things about Iran visit their websites and Read the hateful venomous things they say about us, check presstv website for example; they are antiPakistan and pro-India; you really think Iran is trustworthy?
only rational approach to have better relations without taking consideration of third party interest.