The Financial Express: Tapping TAPI

The fact that prime minister Narendra Modi plans a week-long visit to the Central Asian republics—Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan—later this month suggests he has jettisoned all doubts about the 1,800 km TAPI pipeline that travels through Pakistan after coming in through Afghanistan from Turkmenistan. Whether the security establishment in India is right in its assessment that a pipeline crossing Pakistan will truly be safe—or how the risk is to be defrayed among participants—remains to be seen. What is clear, however, is that India’s policies on natural gas and on downstream industries needs a radical change. MORE