QUETTA, Oct 28: Iranian Consul-General to Quetta Hossein Keshmiri has said that Iran is ready to provide electricity to border areas of Pakistan if the Pakistan government makes a request to that effect.

Talking to newsmen at an Iftar-dinner he hosted for representatives of the Chambers of Commerce and Industry and journalists on Wednesday the diplomat said that Pakistan and Iran were consolidating their relations in the agriculture sector.

He stated that the people living along the border areas of both the countries were facing similar problems and governments in Islamabad and Tehran were considering a joint strategy to combat smuggling and drug trafficking of narcotics.