Call for Closer Ties With Pakistan

Tehran on Saturday expressed hope that relations with Islamabad will be strengthened in all areas under Imran Khan, whose party was declared the winner of the general election. 
“The Islamic Republic of Iran…is willing to make efforts for the expansion of broad-based cooperation between the two friendly Muslim neighbors in the interest of the two peoples,” Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi said in a statement carried by IRNA on Saturday. 
He congratulated the Pakistani people and authorities on the “successful” holding of the polls.