A senior Pakistani legislator has emphasized the necessity for the rapid construction of Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project which is expected to carry Iran’s gas to the South Asian nation.\n<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, the opposition leader from Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and member of Pakistan’s National Assembly, Makhdoom Amin Fahim, called on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to complete Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project in its scheduled time.\n<\/p>\n
“The previous government of my party had finalized the agreement of import of gas from Iran,” Fahim said.\n<\/p>\n
On March 11, Iran\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari inaugurated the final construction phase of the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline at the shared border region in Iran’s southeastern city of Chabahar, intended to carry natural gas from Iran to its eastern neighbor.\n<\/p>\n
The 2700-kilometer-long pipeline will begin from Iran’s Assalouyeh Energy Zone in the south and stretch over 1,100 kilometers through Iran. The joint multi-billion-dollar pipeline is designed to help Pakistan overcome its growing energy needs at a time when the country of over 180 million people is grappling with serious energy shortages.\n<\/p>\n
On May 20, in telephone conversation with the leader of Pakistan\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Sharif, Iranian Vice President Mohammad-Reza Rahimi expressed hope Tehran and Islamabad would further improve relations during the new Pakistani government\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s mandate.\n<\/p>\n
Sharif, for his part, said Pakistan is ready to enhance the level of its relations with Iran and added that the Pakistani government would make serious efforts to achieve this goal.\n<\/p>\n
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