Xinhua (September 8) reported that China's Minister of Public Security Zhao Kezhi and Pakistani Interior Minister Ijaz Ahmed Shah spoke to each other on September 7. The report says that both sides need to “further strengthen practical cooperation in such areas as anti-terrorism, security along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and law enforcement capacity building, and expand police exchanges and cooperation between their local counterparts, so as to safeguard the common interests as well as security and stability of the two countries, and continuously promote the China-Pakistan all-weather strategic cooperative partnership.” The Ministry of Public Security statement added that Meng Yang, Deputy Secretary-General of the State Council, Cheng Guoping, Foreign Security Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Xu Ganlu, Deputy Minister of Public Security were also present.
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