Iran Gas Pipeline

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  Pak Risks $18 Billion Fine For Delaying Completion Of Iran Gas Pipeline: Report

  Pakistan could face a whopping USD 18 billion as a penalty for not completing the gas pipeline project with Iran in the timeframe stipulated in the agreement.

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  Fire Under Control In Iran Gas Pipeline Blast: Official

  A fire from a gas pipeline explosion in Iran early today near the town of Gonaveh in the southern province of Bushehr, has been brought under control and did not cause any fatalities, the news agency of the country's oil ministry said today.

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  China To Invest $8.5 Billion To Upgrade Pakistan's Rail Network, Build Gas Pipeline: Report

  China will invest about USD 8.5 billion to upgrade Pakistan's rail network and to build a key gas pipeline with Iran to meet the country's energy needs, a media report said today.

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  India Must Make Full Use of Iran Nuclear Deal: President Pranab Mukherjee

  Ahead of lifting of sanctions against Iran, President Pranab Mukherjee today pressed for reviving the long talked about Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline and using the Chabahar port to forge closer ties with the Persian Gulf nation.

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  Iran Nuclear Deal May Revive Long-Pending Gas Pipelines to India: Ficci

  Major powers and Iran struck a historic deal on Tuesday aimed at ensuring Tehran does not acquire a nuclear bomb, in return for relief from crippling sanctions, diplomats said.

• Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif Visits Iran Amid Tensions

  Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met Iran's president on Sunday at the start of a visit during which talks are likely to include border security and a stalled gas pipeline deal.

• Iran says Pakistan obliged to complete gas pipeline

  Iran's oil ministry said on Wednesday that Pakistan is contractually obliged to complete a major pipeline project which would allow Tehran to export gas to its southeastern neighbour.

• Gas pipeline with Iran shelved, says Pakistan minister

  The $1.3 billion Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline has been shelved because of sanctions against Tehran, dealing a blow to Islamabad's efforts to access cheap energy sources to overcome a crippling power crisis.

• Gunmen kill 18 Iranian gas workers in Iraq: witnesses

  Masked gunmen killed 18 people, most of them Iranians, working on a gas pipeline outside the northeastern Iraqi town of Muqdadiya on Friday, witnesses and officials said.

• Pakistan committed to completing Iran gas pipeline project

  Pakistan is committed to building a multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline from neighbouring Iran but the threat of international sanctions makes the task difficult, the South Asian nation's petroleum minister said on Friday.

• Iran says Pakistan must finance own gas pipeline

  Iran's deputy oil minister, Ali Majedi, said today that Pakistan must finance a controversial pipeline that would enable it to buy gas from the Islamic republic.

• Pakistan may face sanctions over gas pipeline with Iran: US

  Pakistan could face tough US sanctions if it goes ahead with the multi-billion Iran-Pak gas pipeline, a top American diplomat has said.

• Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline could be extended to China

  Notwithstanding US opposition to its gas pipeline project with Iran, Pakistan is looking at the possibility of extending it to China as part of a planned economic corridor.

• Pakistan starts work on Iranian gas line opposed by US

  The presidents of Iran and Pakistan marked the start of Pakistani construction on a much-delayed gas pipeline on Monday, Iranian media reported, despite US pressure on Islamabad to back out of the project.

• Pakistan stocks slump as pipeline with Iran triggers sanction fears

  Stock markets in Pakistan on Monday crashed with the KSE 100 index of the Karachi Stock Exchange losing 2.5 per cent, or 441.62 points, as the ground-breaking ceremony of $7.5 billion gas pipeline project with Iran triggered fears of possible US sanctions.