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