{"id":1261,"date":"2015-03-01T15:45:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T15:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2015-03-01T15:45:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T15:45:48","slug":"iran-pakistan-gas-pipeline-not-abandoned-pakistani-commerce-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/iran-pakistan-gas-pipeline-not-abandoned-pakistani-commerce-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline not abandoned: Pakistani commerce minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Pakistani commerce minister says the country has not abandoned the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project, which is scheduled to provide Pakistan with Iranian natural gas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan will pursue the IP project after the removal of anti-Iran sanctions, the Express Tribune quoted Khurram Dastgir Khan as saying in a Saturday report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u201cA gas pipeline that is going to be laid from [the Pakistani port city of] Gwadar to [the port city of] Nawabshah can be extended by 11 kilometers to Iran,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran and Pakistan signed an agreement for the construction of the gas pipeline in 1995. Later, Iran made a proposal to extend the pipeline from Pakistan into India. In February 1999, an accord between Iran and India was signed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But due to the US pressure, India withdrew from the project in 2009.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran has already built its 900-kilometer share of the pipeline on its own soil and is waiting for the 700-kilometer Pakistani side of the pipeline to be built.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The IP pipeline aims to help Pakistan overcome its growing energy needs at a time when the country of over 180 million people is grappling with serious energy shortages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United States has long been threatening Islamabad with economic sanctions if it goes ahead with the plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistani commerce minister says the country has not abandoned the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[124,1],"tags":[152,30,8,7],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-news","tag-energy","tag-iran","tag-pakistan","tag-u-s"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Iran-Pakistan-Gaspipeline.jpg?fit=655%2C334&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-kl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}