President Asif Ali Zardari and President Mehmood Ahmedinijad jointly inaugurated on Monday multibillion dollar Pak-Iran Gas Pipeline Project at border town of Gabad.
The project was formally inaugurated at a ceremony which marks the start of work on the 781-kilometre pipeline earmarked for the Pakistani side of the border, with the cost of $1.5 billion. The pipeline on the Iranian side is almost complete.

An Iranian-Pakistani consortium will complete work on the project at a cost of $7.5 billion.

Pakistan will start receiving gas after completion of the project in December 2014. Iran will supply 750 million cubic feet gas to Pakistan.

The President� despite the International pressure� has categorically stated that the gas pipeline proj

By The Nation

 

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