SANAA, Dec 11: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz met President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the southern port city of Aden on Monday, Yemen’s Saba news agency said. Mr Aziz, who arrived in Yemen on Sunday on a three-day visit, has been holding talks on cooperation between Sanaa and Islamabad in the fight against terrorism. Mr Aziz met Prime Minister Abdel Kader Bajammal shortly after his arrival in Sanaa for talks that focused on political, economic and security cooperation between Yemen and Pakistan, Saba news agency reported.

“The two countries stand in the same trench in the fight against terrorism in all its forms,” Mr Bajammal said.

—AFP

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