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Don't write off tri-nation pipeline: Iran to
ask India
Monday August 27, 2012 10:39:10 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Don't write off the tri-nation
Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline as yet. When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinjead meets Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Tehran
Wednesday, he is expected to pitch for fast-tracking the project,
ahead of a meeting of energy officials of the three countries in
Islamabad.
The joint working group on hydrocarbons comprises officials of the
energy ministries of the three countries.
The meeting is expected to revive the stalled negotiations over
the ambitious $7 billion pipeline proposal that seeks to bring
Iranian gas via Pakistan to India, reliable sources said.
Iran and Pakistan have already sealed a bilateral deal on the
pipeline, but India has tended to vacillate due to a host of
reasons. Iran, the most ardent backer of the project, has however
not given up on India joining what Tehran projects as the "peace
pipeline" connecting the three countries in a web of prosperity.
India has security concerns as the proposed pipeline passes
through the volatile regions of Pakistan's Balochistan province.
The talks have also deadlocked over transport and transit fees
with Pakistan.
Apart from scepticism about the economic and logistical
unviability of the pipeline, it is being opposed by the US, which
feels it will amount to defeating its larger strategy of isolating
Tehran in the region.
In India, the pipeline has been virtually written off, but there
are signs that it may be revived.
Early this month, a parliamentary panel asked the petroleum
ministry to "vigorously" pursue and settle all pending issues
related to the project as it would help address the country's
energy gap.
In a report, the standing committee on petroleum and natural gas
sought the earliest possible start for the project.
Besides, India in May signed on to
Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline. The
gas from the pipeline is expected to start flowing into
energy-starved India in another five years, official sources said.
India has signed the gas sales-purchase agreement for the $7.6
billion project that is to begin in Turkmenistan and pass through
Afghanistan and Pakistan before terminating in India.
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