Tehran, YJC. Peace pipeline initiator says there is no national will to complete the pipeline which takes Iranian gas to Pakistan.
Some years ago Ali Shams Arakani
introduced the initiative to transfere Iran’s gas to Pakistan via pipes. The
initiative came considering Iran’s place as the world’s second gas reservoir
seen as worthy of a bigger share in the global market.
But these days Ardakani’s project is
left half-finished. He knows Saudi Arabia to be the cause of the lack of
success of the project.
Tadbir Khabar reports that with Iran
off the scene, Saudi Arabia will earn something around $100 million on a daily
basis. That is why the country makes no bones bribing Pakistan out of the Peace
gas transfer contract.
Recently Asia Times reported that
Riyadh has given a $1.5 billion fund to Islamabad, stating that by doing so
Saudis try to buy Nawaz Sharif out of gas cooperation with Iran. The article
comes shortly before the Pakistani Prime Minister’s trip to Iran.