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Iranian, Pakistani officials discuss development of border markets
Feb 06, 2022 11:32Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi and Pakistan’s ambassador to Tehran Rahim Hayat Qureshi weighed plans for the promotion of border trade between the two countries.
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Pakistani parliament censures government over Iran trade status
Jan 26, 2022 16:01The Pakistani parliament has voiced dissatisfaction over the low level of trade between the country and neighboring Iran as lawmakers censure the government in Islamabad for its lack of action to get round US sanctions on Tehran to enable trade between the two countries to boom.
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Iran condemns terrorist attack in Pakistan, reaffirms need to fight terrorism across region
Jan 20, 2022 15:50Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh has strongly condemned a terrorist bomb attack in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore, reaffirming the need to continue the fight against terrorist groups across the region.
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Value of Iran’s trade with neighbors rises by 42% in 9 months
Jan 13, 2022 09:32The value of Iran’s trade with neighboring countries in the first 9 months of the current Iranian calendar year (March-December 2021) increased by 42 percent compared to the same period last year.
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Iran: Security forces bust intl. drug smuggling cell near southwestern border
Jan 12, 2022 09:13Security forces of Iran have disbanded an international drug smuggling cell in southwestern Khuzestan Province, confiscating a large amount of narcotics and arms from the traffickers.
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At least 21 dead, hundreds stranded in Pakistan snowstorm
Jan 08, 2022 14:53At least 21 people died in an enormous traffic jam caused by tens of thousands of visitors thronging a Pakistani hill town to see unusually heavy snowfall, authorities said Saturday.
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Iran's connectivity plans suddenly rumble to life
Jan 03, 2022 08:46The second freight train running from Pakistan to Turkey through Iran has departed with the coordination of customs, railways and forwarders in the three countries following the successful launch of the service last month, Fars news agency says.
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Pakistan’s flag carrier resumes direct flights to Iran’s Mashhad
Dec 31, 2021 03:53Pakistan’s national flag carrier PIA has resumed direct flights between Lahore and Iran’s second largest city of Mashhad five years after the airline suspended the route over financial problems.
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ITI rail link opens in blow to US bid to isolate Iran
Dec 21, 2021 11:49The first freight train to run from Pakistan to Turkey through Iran has departed after a 10-year hiatus in a major boost to the trading credentials of the three founders of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO).
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Iran’s foreign minister, Pakistan’s top general discuss anti-terror fight on OIC meeting sidelines
Dec 20, 2021 04:15Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has discussed cooperation between Tehran and Islamabad in the fight against terrorism with Chief of the Army Staff of Pakistan General Qamar Javed Bajwa.