MOSCOW – Defence Minister Engineer Khurram Dastgir Khan met Iranian DefenceMinister Gen. Amir Hatami in delegation-level talks on the sidelines of theMoscow Security Conference in the Russian capital.

Both Ministers discussed better management of the border, sustainable peacein Afghanistan, violence perpetrated on Muslims in Palestine, Syria, andIndian-occupied Kashmir.

The Ministers expressed a shared concern about presence of ISIS inAfghanistan.

Khurram Dastgir Khan observed that Pak-Iran relations have improvedsubstantively since 2014, when former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visitedTeheran, followed by reciprocal visits in 2016 and 2017 by President ofIran Hassan Rouhani.