SOCHI * – Pakistan’s National Security Advisor Nasir Khan Janjuai said onThursday that Islamabad withstands against the US measures.*

The Pakistani official said in a meeting with Iran’s Secretary of theSupreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani in Sochi on Thursday.

Shamkhani is in Sochi for a two-day security conference with participationof representatives from 110 countries, IRNA has reported.

In the meeting, Nasir Khan Janjuai said close security cooperation betweenIran and Pakistan on play significant role in removing barriers preventingexpansion of all-out relations between the two countries.

Without eradication of grounds forming extremism, it is not possible toeradicate Takfiri terrorism, he said.

Pakistani government and people are determined to stand against foreignpressures and never let their political independence and interests to beharmed by ill-wishers, he said.

He also strongly condemned the US measure in recognizing the holy Qods asthe capital of the Zionist regime.

At the 9th Security Conference of senior officials from five worldcontinents, which kicked off on Wednesday its 2-day meeting in the city ofSochi, Russia, heads of Intelligence organizations, secretaries of nationalsecurity councils, ministers and aides of presidents and representativesfrom 110 countries participated.

In the first day of the conference, discussions were around issues dubbedas; ‘international crises from confrontation to dialogue’ and ‘evolution oftactics and strategies of international terrorist organizations’.

On the second day of conference two issues of ‘international informationsecurity; world responses to global challenges’ and ‘production and spreadof narcotics, threats to peace and international stability’ were on theagenda.