ISLAMABAD – Pakistan and Iran have agreed to protect the 900km-long commonborder with some ‘appropriate measures’ including fencing.
The decision was taken during the second session of the Pakistan-IranHigher Border Commission (HBC) at the Foreign Office on Thursday.
Pakistan has already fenced a significant portion of its shared border withAfghanistan, just like India did at the Line of Control (LoC).
Describing it as the ‘border of peace and friendship,’ both parties agreedto establish new border crossing points with mutual understanding.
Following the session, the Foreign Office termed the exercise as “amechanism for consultations between the two countries to discuss allborder-related issues.”
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It said that the latest sitting of HBC was a followup of the decisionstaken during Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit to Iran in April. The firstsession was held on July 2017 in Tehran.
Zahid Hafeez Chaudhry, the Director-General for (Afghanistan, Iran, andTurkey) led Pakistan’s delegation, while the Iranian delegation was led byDirector General of International Legal Affairs of the Ministry of ForeignAffairs, Abbas Bagherpour Ardekani.
