ISLAMABAD, Dec 15: Pakistan and China on Monday signed an agreement for military cooperation, pledging to take existing bilateral military ties to new heights.

The signing of the agreement took place in Beijing between the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, Gen Tariq Majid, and his Chinese counterpart at the end of the sixth round of Pakistan-China defence and security talks — a forum to spearhead strategic and defence relations between the two countries. Gen Tariq Majid, leading a high-powered delegation, was greeted on arrival at Ba’ yi Building (People’s Liberation Army headquarters) by Gen Chen Bingde, Chief of General Staff, People’s Liberation Army.

The talks covered a wide range of regional and international issues and a review of the military to military cooperation, including measures to bolster existing relations. There was unanimity on all issues.

The two sides agreed to take forward their strategic partnership to new heights and to augment military to military cooperation.—APP

NEW DELHI - India has proof that Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan’s top intelligence agency, was involved in planning the Mumbai terror attacks and training the terrorists who killed 183 people during a 60-hour siege of the country’s financial capital. The names of trainers and the places where meticulous training took place are also known to the government. The United States is believed to have even more evidence some of which it has shared with India, they said. Chairman of US Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen, who was in Pakistan Wednesday, is believed to have told his Pakistani interlocutors that Washington had enough evidence to show a Pakistani hand in the attack the sources said.