TEHRAN: Interior Minister of Iran
Mostafa Mohammad Najar on Sunday said
Iran will donate $ 100 million for the
rehabilitation of the rain affected
people of Sindh. The Iranian Interior
Minister said this during a meeting
with Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza
Gilani after receiving him here on his
arrival at Mehrabad airport. The
Interior Minister told the Prime
Minister that he would go to Pakistan
within a week along with a planeload of
relief goods for the rain affected
people of Pakistan.
He
said Iran will donate $ 100 million which he will announce during his
visit to Pakistan for the rehabilitation of the rain victims in
brotherly country of Pakistan.
The Prime Minister thanked the
government and people of Iran for their generous assistance and for
feeling suffering of the people of Pakistan. He said the prompt and
generous assistance for the people of Pakistan is manifestation of
sentiments of the government and people of Iran.
The Prime
Minister said during the visit of the Interior Minister of Iran he
would ask Pakistan’s Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Interior and Finance
to hold meetings with him on the pending Memorandums of Understanding
(MOU) with a view to make substantive progress on various issues to
enhance cooperation between the two countries.
The Prime
Minister said talks between Pakistan and Iran would focus on drug
trafficking, human trafficking and terrorism. The Prime Minister
referred to the recent visit of the Iranian Foreign Minister to
Pakistan and his meetings on wide ranging issues.
During the
meetings, the two sides reached understanding to expedite work on the
Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project, import of 1000 mega watts of
electricity from Iran to Pakistan and setting up of an investment fund
to encourage private sector and provision of financial institutional
regime to facilitate business community of respective countries to
undertake investment without much interference at the bureaucratic
level.
The Prime Minister while responding to the sentiments of
the Iranian Interior Minister said that he considered Iran as his
second home because his ancestors belonged to Gilan province which he
intends to visit. “It is like home coming,” the Prime Minister said.
The Interior Minister welcomed the Prime Minister in his home. Online
