Pakistan and Iran have agreed to enhance trade and economic cooperation and increase people-to-people contacts.

This was agreed at a meeting between Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar with Iranian Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi on the sidelines of the 21st D-8 Council of Foreign Ministers in Egypt today.  

They expressed satisfaction at the trajectory of bilateral relations between the two countries marked by increased high-level exchanges in political and economic fields.

The two sides also exchanged views on the situation in the Middle East.

Ishaq Dar reaffirmed Pakistan's principled position on Palestine and expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people.