Pakistan today said it will guarantee safety of the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline. It also said that Islamabad may give New Delhi an equity stake in the section of the pipeline passing through its territory as additional surety of safe delivery of the fuel. Mohammed Chaudhry Ejaz, Additional Secretary in Pakistan’s Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources, told PTI in an interview to PTI at Cancun in Mexico that Pakistan will stand guarantee for safe delivery of gas at Pakistan-India border.He said Pakistan has up to nine hours of power outages and it needs Iranian gas to bridge this rising deficit.He added that it is in our interest that the pipeline is safe and we get the gas to generate power and fuel industries. With New Delhi boycotting formal talks for almost three- years, Iran and Pakistan this month signed last of a series of agreements for implementing the project on bilateral basis.New Delhi, however, has not officially called it quits yet and is proposing talks with Iran to sort out impediments.
News On AIR | April 1, 2010 2:06 PM
Pak to India: will ensure safety of Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline