Pak-Iran agree on intelligence sharing on the porous border

The top security officials of Pakistan and Iran today met in Tehran where the two sides agreed on intelligence sharing on their porous border after tensions over the recent cross-border firing incidents.
Inspector General Frontier Corps Major General Ejaz Shahid met Iranian Border Police Chief General Qasim Razai in Tehran and decided to improve coordination and cooperation in order to secure the border.
"The security heads of the borders deliberated the recent incidents inside the bordering areas. They decided to improve coordination on intelligence sharing," Khan Wassay, Frontier Corps spokesperson said in a statement.
The two sides also agreed to improve surveillance and security of the border, set-up a joint border commission with an objective to discuss issues pertaining to territorial violations and increase efforts to stop illegal crossings by militants and other miscreants.

Pakistan also emphasised that it wanted to strengthen relations with Iran for durable peace in the region.
Last week, Iranian border guards fired and killed a Pakistani soldier and wounded three others. There were also reports that the Iranian border troops also entered Pakistan territory and raided a house.

Iran also said two of its borders guards were killed by militants near the Pakistani border.
Major General Shahid has threatened to retaliate if Iranians fire again across the border.
The two countries had also summoned each other's ambassadors and lodged protests over the border incident.