Deal on gas pipeline in final stages

Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan envisage development of complete energy corridor under multi- billion dollar TAP project including two parallel gas and crude oil pipelines, railway track, road and optic fibre system, but India is interested in a gas pipeline alone.

Informed sources told Dawn that the Asian Development Bank (ADB) was currently in the final stages of revising framework agreement and inter-state agreements to include India in the project before these are discussed and cleared by the technical groups and the steering committee for ratification.
Dawn