Eurasia Review: Bleak Outlook For Iran-Pakistan Gas Pipeline

The failure to complete a gas pipeline from Iran to Pakistan in more than six decades can be termed a tragedy for the two neighboring countries, one rich in energy and other suffering due to its paucity.

The two counties had enjoyed extremely cordial relationship with the United States, till the monarchy was toppled in Iran. Since then Iran has been enduring economic sanctions that with the passage of time have got tougher.

Pakistan has been fighting a US proxy war in Afghanistan for the last four decades, it was neither allowed by the super power to go ahead with Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project, nor was it treated at par with India when it came to offering ‘nuclear technology for civilian use’.

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari cancelling his trip to Iran in December last year — and instead went to the UK to meet Malala Yousufzai — seems to have put the last nail in the coffin, removing it may take decades. MORE