ISLAMABAD: Chief of General Staff Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Dr. Mohammad Bagheri, met Pakistani military chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Monday at the army’s general headquarters in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.

The Iranian Chief of General Staff is visiting Pakistan along with a high-level delegation.

They discussed matters of mutual interest, regional security, defense cooperation and Pak-Iran border management, the Pakistan military media wing Inter-Services Public Relations said.

Last week, Pakistan hosted a high-level meeting of the heads of intelligence agencies from Russia, China and Iran to discuss counter-terrorism cooperation and how to deal with the threat of Daesh, which is consolidating its footprints in Afghanistan.