ASTANA. Aug 28 (Interfax) - Kazakhstan is to resume a program of sending military personnel to Pakistan to receive postgraduate education, under an agreement signed between the two countries' defense ministries during a formal visit by Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to Astana.

"We will now look at the troops' needs and capabilities," Kazakh Deputy Defense Minister Talgat Mukhtarov told Interfax on Friday, commenting on the defense ministry's plans to send troops to study in Pakistan.

The ministry is planning to send a certain number of Kazakh military officers each year, he said.

"Yes, more than ten [officers]. This is not for just one period, the agreement has no fixed term," he said.

Mukhtarov recalled that the first such document was signed with Pakistan in 2005 and expired in 2010.

"At the time, we had 67 people training there, then the agreement was suspended between 2010 and 2015," he said.

"We are mainly interested in post-graduate education and course training. [