Pakistan, Iran Reiterate Resolve To Further Strengthen Bilateral Ties.

This was stated by Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari while addressing joint news conference alongside his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in Tehran on Tuesday.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said Iran is an important neighbor and brother of Pakistan and building close relations with Iran remains our high priority.

He said during his meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister, they took stock of entire gamut of bilateral relations and identified ways to further strengthen the bilateral relations in trade, investment, connectivity, border management, facilitation of Zaireen, cultural and educational cooperation and enhancing people to people contacts.

The Foreign Minister said we have come closer to resolving one of the major obstacles in expanding trade through operationalization of party trade mechanism, formalization of cross border exchanges through opening new border crossings and promotion of trade through cross border markets.

Reiterating the commitment to enhance commercial and economic activities for prosperity of the two peoples, the Foreign Minister said we have also committed to enhance energy cooperation by importing additional electricity from Iran.

He said during his meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister, they also discussed the exchange of sentenced prisoners under the existing legal frameworks to allow them to complete their sentences in their respective countries.

Appreciating Iran s facilitation of Pakistani Zaireen, the Foreign Minister said he discussed additional facilities for Zaireen.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said we also discussed latest developments in Afghanistan especially the dire humanitarian...