DUSHANBE , May 18, Asia-Plus - On Wednesday May 17, Tajik Drug Control Agency (DCA) Director Rustam Nazarov met in Dushanbe with visiting Pakistani Federal Minister for Drug Control Gous Bakhsh Mahara (phonetically spelled). 

According to information from the DCA, in the course of the talks the two discussed a progress of the implementation  of an agreement between Tajikistan and Pakistan on fighting drug trafficking that was signed in Islamabad on May 13, 2004 .  

Th DCA source says the meeting focused on issues related to exchange of operational information between the drug control agencies of the two countries, integration of Afghan competent bodies  into the fight against drug trafficking, and training of personnel. 

Pakistani minister arrived in Tajikistan to attend an international conference on countering regional drug trafficking that was held in Dushanbe on May 15-17 and the second two-day meeting of a working group for security and fight against drug trafficking in Central and South Asia that concluded in Dushanbe on May 17.