18 May 2015 - 09:03
  • News ID: 241122
Hopes Soar for IP Project

TEHRAN May 18 (Shana)--Chairman of Pakistan’s United International Group Mian Shahid has said that gas import from Iran is going to become a reality twenty years after Pakistan and Iran signed pipeline deal.

The project has important political and economic dimensions for the two neighboring countries but US has remained the biggest obstacle forcing Pakistan to get gas from Turkmenistan, Pakistani news outlets quoted him as saying.

Talking to the founder president of IWCCI Samina Fazil, he said that plan to import gas from central Asia will not see the light of the day for the next decade due to situation in Afghanistan while lifting Iran sanctions will reduce energy crisis in Pakistan substantially.

He said that the pipeline project, if materialized, could be extended to India and China providing extra income to Pakistan under transit head while Iran could also provide liquefied natural gas (LNG) at economical rates.  
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