{"id":1338,"date":"2026-06-17T14:44:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2026-06-17T14:44:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:44:25","slug":"pakistan-uk-agree-to-deepen-cooperation-on-counterterrorism-illegal-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/pakistan-uk-agree-to-deepen-cooperation-on-counterterrorism-illegal-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan, UK agree to deepen cooperation on counterterrorism, illegal migration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ISLAMABAD<\/strong>: Pakistan and the United Kingdom on Wednesday agreed to enhance cooperation in counterterrorism, combating illegal migration and human smuggling, institutional collaboration and police training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The understanding was reached as Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi met British Minister of State for the Middle East, South Asia and the UN Hamish Falconer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the interior ministry, Falconer appreciated Pakistan\u2019s \u201cpositive and significant\u201d role in facilitating the US-Iran peace deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPakistan\u2019s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir played a historic role for peace,\u201d it quoted Falconer as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe US-Iran peace deal has projected Pakistan as a flag-bearer of global peace,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the statement, the two leaders also agreed on \u201cenhancing cooperation between the two countries in various fields, including counterterrorism, combating illegal migration, institutional collaboration, and police training\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPositive results are emerging from the UPSCALE Project and the capacity of Pakistani institutions has improved significantly,\u201d the ministry quoted Naqvi as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the meeting, the interior minister assured that \u201cindiscriminate action was being taken against illegal migration and human smuggling in Pakistan,\u201d it stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the two leaders also discussed Pakistan-UK relations and the overall regional situation, the ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNaqvi reaffirmed Pakistan\u2019s commitment to further strengthening relations with the UK,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBoth leaders agreed to work together to address the issue of fake student visas,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNaqvi also emphasised that several terrorist organisations were operating from Afghanistan, and the Afghan government must prevent its territory from being used against Pakistan,\u201d the ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar earlier this week, Falconer had acknowledged that Pakis\u00adtan has the right under inte\u00adrnational law to defend itself against atta\u00adcks originating from Afgh\u00adanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A day earlier, he had also announced an additional \u00a38 million to support joint UK-Pakistan efforts to combat crime and illegal migration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the United Kingdom on Wednesday agreed to enhance cooperation in counterterrorism, combating illegal migration and human smuggling, institutional collaboration and police training. The understanding was reached as Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi met British Minister of State for the Middle East, South Asia and the UN Hamish Falconer According to the interior ministry, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,2],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[27],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest","category-national","category-pakisstan"],"authors":[{"term_id":27,"user_id":3,"is_guest":0,"slug":"afnanwasif","display_name":"Web Desk","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cbec8328241e98fefcd32e00f20f7a6b502086a0b95d395db4b1565c51681914?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Web","last_name":"Desk","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}