IP gas pipeline: Timely completion of project stressed

ISLAMABAD: Former Secretary Petroleum Dr Gulfraz Ahmed said that the current energy crisis has no sign of abating until the Pak-Iran gas pipeline project is completed due to a general lack of cost effective alternatives. He remarked that the project concerns Pakistan and Iran only and no hindrance should be allowed in the project. Responding to a question, he said that India had withdrawn from the project due a civil nuclear programme agreement with the US. “We should also pursue Turkmenistan gas pipeline project because after ten years Pakistan will need more energy,” he added.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 20^th, 2012.