Iran to Start Pumping Gas to Pakistan Next Year

[Karachi]

Iran to Start Pumping Gas to Pakistan Next Year
TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran's Envoy to Islamabad Mashallah Shakeri announced that Iran would start pumping gas to Pakistan as early as next year.

"If desired, Pakistan can connect with the pipeline next year," the ambassador added.

He said the Iranian government has constructed the pipeline on war footing just to facilitate Pakistan.

Shakeri, who is in his fifth year as Tehran's envoy to Islamabad, said that his country is earnestly and sincerely desirous of providing gas to Pakistan.

Islamabad has also announced earlier this year that it has intensified work on the multi-billion-dollar pipeline project which is due to bring Iran's gas to Pakistan, Pakistani media reports said on Sunday.

Work on Iran-Pak Gas Pipeline is quickly progressing and the National Engineering Services Pakistan (Nespak) signed an agreement with a German Company to place the pipeline, the reports said in April.

Speaking at a conference on "Challenges Faced by Industries in the country: Remedies and Future Prospects for Industrialization", Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) Managing Director Dr Faizullah Abbasi stated in April that approximately 1750mn cubic feet (mcf) of gas will be brought through this pipeline.

In a major breakthrough on March 20, 2009, the Pakistani government approved Iran's proposed pricing formula for gas supplies to the South Asian nation.

Subsequently, Tehran and Islamabad signed a final agreement to launch implementation of the project.

Tehran and Islamabad also sealed a final contract for the start of Iran's gas exports to Pakistan through the multi-billion-dollar pipeline in spring 2014.

The last annex of the agreement for export of Iran's gas to Pakistan was signed on June 13 by Iranian Oil Minister Massoud Mir-Kazzemi and Managing Director of Pakistan's Inter-State Gas Company Naeem Sharafat in a meeting also attended by the Iranian oil ministry's representative in gas talks with Pakistan Seyed Reza Kassayeezadeh.

The 2700-kilometer long pipeline was to supply gas for Pakistan and India which are suffering a lack of energy sources, but India has evaded talks. Last year Iran and Pakistan declared they would finalize the agreement bilaterally if India continued to be absent in the meetings.

According to the project proposal, the pipeline will begin from Iran's Assalouyeh Energy Zone in the south and stretch over 1,100 km through Iran. In Pakistan, it will pass through Baluchistan and Sindh but officials now say the route may be changed if China agrees to the project.

The gas will be supplied from the South Pars field. The initial capacity of the pipeline will be 22 billion cubic meters of natural gas per annum, which is expected to be later raised to 55 billion cubic meters. It is expected to cost $7.4 billion.

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[Karachi]

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Iran Pakistan can Bring peace to region

Through cooperation Tehran and Islamabad can meet their demands and take effective steps towards securing their interests as well as the interest of regional nations,”
Ahmadinejad said in a Saturday meeting with the new Pakistani envoy Khalid Aziz Babar.

He pointed to various cultural and economic capacities and insisted that both countries should use such untapped potentials to further enhance their ties.

“Although the presence and interference of foreign [forces] have sometimes created restrictions and obstacles in the way of increasing the level of cooperation of regional nations, a firm resolve can help remove these obstacles and promote the level of all-out ties,” the Iranian president said.

The Pakistani ambassador, for his part, expressed optimism that the expansion of Tehran-Islamabad ties would change regional equations in favor of regional nations.

Pakistan and Afghanistan have been ravaged by insecurity since the so-called US-led war on terror started in 2001, with the official objective of curbing militancy and bringing peace and stability to the region.

Tens of thousands of Afghan civilians have reportedly lost their lives as a result of displacement, starvation, lack of medical treatment, crime and lawlessness stemming from the war.

Thousands of Pakistanis have also been killed since Islamabad joined the US-led campaign and provided its airspace and soil to the foreign troops.

However, after nine years the region remains unstable and militancy has expanded towards Pakistan.



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[graveyardofempires]

Iran and pakistan both are enemies of muslims and especially Pashtuns.
if they keep messing with afghanistan their hands should be cut off.

[Shehbaz Khan]

Good to hear!!