Iran, Pakistan Stress the Need for Gas Pipeline

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Pakistani Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif have stressed the need for the completion of the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project.

During a meeting on the sidelines of the 68th annual session of the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, Sharif said he would be sending Pakistan’s Minister of Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to Iran in the near future to discuss completion of the project with Iranian energy officials, Press TV reported. 

The final construction phase of the IP pipeline was inaugurated on March 11. Iran has already built 900 kilometers of the pipeline on its soil and is helping to build the 700-kilometer part of the pipeline on the Pakistani side. 

The pipeline will help Pakistan need its energy needs.