India, Pakistan sign MoUs to strengthen ties

Pakistan's junior foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Friday said that India and Pakistan acknowledged terrorism posed a continuous threat to peace and security of the region and both the countries agreed to eliminate this scourge in all its forms and manifestations, during the talks between the foreign secretaries of both the nations. The foreign secretaries, Nirupama Rao and her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir, also signed several Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) to help normalise relations between the two countries, during the meet in Islamabad. After the meeting, Khar addressed the mediapersons and stated that one of the most important MoUs signed between the two sides was regarding the joint effort to curb the menace of militancy from the region.