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Iran says security talks with Pakistan show progress

Xinhua, July 26, 2016 Adjust font size:

Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani said Tuesday that the security talks between Iran and Pakistan over the past days have made progress.

Tehran and Islamabad have managed to make progress in negotiations about ways to combat the threat of terrorism and its spread in the region, Shamkhani was quoted as saying by Press TV.

The grounds have been prepared for the two countries' national security councils to improve bilateral, regional and international cooperation, he said.

"The Islamic republic regards a developed and stable Pakistan as the guarantee of its own security and will spare no effort in this regard," Shamkhani said in the second round of official talks with Pakistan's National Security Adviser Nasser Janjua in Tehran on Tuesday.

Janjua, for his part, said Tehran and Islamabad must make joint efforts to remove obstacles in the way of strengthening cooperation.

Pakistan has always attached importance to a fight against terrorism and welcomes bolstering cooperation with Iran, he said.

On Monday, Shamkhani called for joint work with Pakistan to stem terrorism in the region.

He urged immediate measures with Pakistan in the fight against terrorism, saying that Tehran would not allow its relations with Islamabad to be destroyed by terrorists seeking insecurity along two neighbors' borders.

Shamkhani also blamed some unnamed countries for "upsetting Iran's relations with Pakistan by arming and hiring terrorists for creating insecurity along the common borders."

The Iranian official, who was meeting with Janjua in Tehran on Monday, also stressed the necessity for ensuring sustainable border security and joint efforts by the two neighbors in the fight against narcotics smuggling, human and arms trafficking and gangs of outlaws.

On Sunday, Iranian police said that it seized more than two tonnes of opium in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan bordering Pakistan.

Also, Iran announced on Thursday that it had dismantled a terrorist cell and arrested 40 suspects in the areas bordering Pakistan.

The Pakistan-based Jaish al-Adl is a rebel group fighting for the greater rights for Sunni Muslims in the Iranian provinces of Sistan and Baluchestan, and is blamed for numerous attacks on Iran's border posts. Enditem

The Pakistani security official is in Tehran for a three-day official visit. Endit