Twists and turns in a pipeline
Hindustan TimesSins and omissions as they say, always come home to roost. After doing nothing at all about a promised, signed and agreed upon pipeline for 15 years, Pakistan may have to pay billions to Iran in damages. The 1900 km pipeline was to start in Assaluyeh in the rich South Pars gas fields in Iran and move via Gwadar port to Nawabshah in Pakistan, to bring one billion cubic feet per day of gas to energy starved Pakistan. The fourth and final reason is ostensibly the wrath of the United States, evident enough in frequent warnings from White House officials at any mention of a pipeline, with the most recent seeing also assurances from the State Department that it would assist Pakistan in meeting its energy needs. But as Donald Lu US assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia, said, Islamabad had not requested a sanctions waiver to conduct gas trade with Iran at any time.
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Deccan Chronicle
In Importing Russian Gas, Pakistan Treads a Fine Line
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Iran's top diplomat urges Pakistan to complete its part of a long-delayed Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline
The Independent
Pakistan PM Imran Khan flies to Moscow to advance pipeline project
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