ISLAMABAD, March 8: Federal Minister for Interior and Narcotics Control, Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat and the UAE Minister for Justice Islamic affairs and Auqaf, Mohammad bin Nakhera al Zahri signed an extradition treaty here, said a press release on Monday.

The UAE minister is currently on a two-day visit to Pakistan with a four-member delegation. The minister hoped that the treaty, signed after 14 years of negotiations, will usher in a new era in relations between the two brotherly countries.

"There may be people involved in transnational crimes belonging to both the countries who are wanted in the other," he said adding, "by this formal arrangement their repatriation would be possible."