QUETTA, Dec 6: Pakistan and Iran on Saturday signed an agreement to cooperate with each other in arresting the culprits involved in human trafficking, car-jacking and other heinous crimes.

The agreement was signed after the 15th meeting of the Project Management Unit held here at the Frontier Corps Headquarters.

The meeting discussed the issue of human trafficking and other related issues and decided to work jointly along the border to curb it.

At the talks, Frontier Corps Inspector-General Maj-Gen Sadaqat Hussain Shah led the Pakistani team while Brigadier Noorullah Younusi and Brigadier Agha Ali Raza Qazalbash were prominent among the Iranian delegation.

“Border security forces of the two countries would take action against human traffickers,” official sources said and added that they had also agreed to arrest those involved in car-jacking.

The meeting decided that coordinating officials would maintain liaison between each other to avoid any misunderstanding on any issue, said the official statement issued after the meeting.

According to the agreement, both countries would provide instant information to one another in case of any sudden incident or event along the border.

PUSHED BACK: The Frontier Corps pushed back seventy Afghan nationals to Afghanistan here at the border on Saturday who were trying to illegally enter Pakistan without any travelling documents, reports APP.

The Frontier Corps sources said the security along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border had been tightened and nobody without legal travelling documents was allowed to cross the border.