Iran seeking to co-produce defense equipment with Pakistan: Army chief of staff
Tehran (KNA) - Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Bagheri, said on a visit to Pakistan today that Iran is trying to jointly manufacture defense equipment with the neighboring country.
Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Bagheri met with Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain on the second day of his visit to the neighboring country on Tuesday morning.
In the meeting that took place at the Presidential Palace in Islamabad, the two sides hailed ample common backgrounds and the nearly 1,000 km long shared border between Iran and Pakistan and emphasized strengthening bilateral cooperation in different fields.
Referring to the topics that are going to be discussed between Iranian and Pakistani official during the visit, the Chief of the General Staff Iran's Armed Forces said that a variety of military and defense issues such as military training, military aviation training as well as other areas of training, holding joint military drills and relations between two countries' defense industries are being and will be discussed during the meetings.
Bagheri said that manufacturing defense products jointly with Pakistan as products of Islamic countries is also on the agenda.
Source: PressTV