It is hoped that while implementing its development plans, govt will succeed in eliminating energy sector problems
LAHORE: Decades after they signed their last defence deal, Russia and Pakistan recently signed an energy pact worth $1.7 billion. Under this deal, an LNG pipeline from Karachi to Lahore will be laid which will be operational from March next year. In another promising gesture, Islamabad and Moscow also signed a defence and military cooperation deal, which aims to usher an era of improved ties and of permanent normalisation of relations. In another heartening energy sector deal, Pakistan signed $3 billion energy pact with China to lay the Gwadar LNG pipeline and for building other related projects.
It is hoped that while implementing its development plans, the Pakistani government will succeed in eliminating energy sector problems permanently and will make this sector fully accomplished, prosperous and proficient.
Farvat Malik
Published in The Express Tribune, December 26th, 2014.
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