Iran's president says Tehran ready to expand all-out cooperation with Pakistan

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday voiced his country's readiness to deepen and expand bilateral cooperation with Pakistan in various areas.

He made the remarks in a meeting with visiting Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi while highlighting the "excellent relations and deep bonds" between the two countries, according to a statement published on the website of Pezeshkian's office.

The Iranian president pointed to the "deep" historical, cultural, and people-to-people relations between the two countries, stressing that Tehran attaches great value to the Pakistani officials' interest in promoting solidarity and relations with Iran.

He expressed Iran's willingness to further deepen its relations with Pakistan in all areas of common interest and prepare the ground for the development of joint cooperation.

Pezeshkian said developing bilateral relations and deepening cooperation can help safeguard the two countries' mutual interests and strengthen regional stability and security.

The Pakistani interior minister, for his part, said his trip to Tehran is aimed at following up on the agreements reached during a recent visit by his Iranian counterpart, Eskandar Momeni, to Pakistan.

Naqvi described ties between the two countries as "strong, age-old and unbreakable", emphasizing that Islamabad pursues the expansion of all-out relations with Tehran.

The Pakistani minister arrived in Tehran earlier in the day and was welcomed by his Iranian counterpart. He, later in the day, met Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi and discussed diplomatic and bilateral issues with him, according to the official news agency IRNA.

Over the past months, Pakistan has mediated peace talks between Iran and the United States and helped the two sides exchange messages. With Islamabad's mediation efforts, Tehran and Washington signed a memorandum of understanding on ending their war in June.

Iran's president says Tehran ready to expand all-out cooperation with Pakistan

Dozens of rescuers and onlookers burst into applause and cheers in Pereira in western Colombia on Tuesday night as a young child was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building following the country's 7.5-magnitude earthquake.

Footage from the scene showed rescuers carefully clearing debris as they worked to reach the trapped child. Onlookers who had gathered at the site held up their phones with flashlights on, casting additional light onto the rescue effort.

When the child was finally brought out, the crowd erupted in applause and cheers, a moment of relief and joy amid the wreckage.

The dramatic rescue came after the strong quake struck the country on Monday, causing widespread damage across multiple regions. Pereira, a city in Colombia's coffee-growing region, was among the cities ravaged by the earthquake.

The death toll from the earthquake in western Colombia has risen to 188, with 1,677 others injured, the Colombian Association of Capital Cities, or Asocapitales, said Tuesday.

Of the total, the latest tally included 95 deaths and 997 injuries reported in the city of Cali, while Pereira reported 79 deaths and 278 injuries.

Rescue operations are continuing in affected areas as the government had declared a state of national disaster to respond to the impact of the earthquake.

Rescuers pull child from rubble in Pereira as cheers erupt