Pakistan, Russia voice concern over increasing IS threat

Pakistani and Russian counter-psychological warfare authorities communicated grave worry over the rising danger postured by the Islamic State in the district, authorities said on Thursday.

The Pakistan-Russia Joint Working Gathering (JWG) on Counter-Fear based oppression on Wednesday talked about a colossal motivation covering the counter-psychological warfare circumstance at the territorial and worldwide level, move made by the two nations to handle the hazard of psychological warfare and in addition respective participation on the issue.

The two sides reaffirmed the dedication for advancing reciprocal collaboration for countering fear mongering and consented to coordinate at the Unified Countries and other universal fora for fighting psychological warfare, a remote service articulation said.

"There was expansive concurrence on the way that fears mongering was a typical worldwide danger which required helpful endeavors of the global group for viably killing it," the announcement said.

"While real victories had been accomplished in the battle against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, the returning IS contenders from the contention zones to nations of root or third nations constituted a noteworthy security danger to different parts of the world, including this area. It was imperative for nations of the area to coordinate to counter this danger," the announcement said.

The Pakistani side was driven by Outside Service Counter-Fear based oppression Executive General Ahmad Farooq, while the Russian side was driven by Chief of the Office for New Difficulties of the Russian Remote Service Ilya Rogachev. The two appointments included authorities from divisions managing counter-fear mongering.