Pakistan will go ahead with Iran gas pipeline project

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will go ahead with a project to build a pipeline to carry Iranian gas even if India decides not to join it, President Pervez Musharraf has said.

Musharraf expressed the hope that India would show interest in the completion of the project, the daily Dawn reported.

“However, If India would not be a part, then also the project would be completed,” the paper quoted Musharraf as saying.

In a meeting with Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid M Kasuri, Musharraf said his country wanted positive development on the project and hoped that pricing issue would soon be resolved among the three countries.

Musharraf said no pressure would be tolerated on the multi-billion-dollar pipeline project. The paper did not specify what the pressure was.

PTI