Pakistan / Iran Pipeline
June 11th, 2012
Via Energy Daily, a report on Pakistan’s efforts to advance a pipeline discussion with Iran: Pakistan, increasingly at odds with the United States over fighting al-Qaida, is reportedly moving forward with plans to build a 1,300-mile pipeline to carry natural gas from Iran. Iran would provide Pakistan with 750 million cubic feet of gas […]
Read more »Fixing Pakistan’s Embattled Economy
April 19th, 2012
Via Foreign Policy, a look at Pakistan’s embattled economy: Pakistan warrants concern, and not just because it is sitting on the fifth largest nuclear arsenal in the world. The country is in the throes of a destabilizing and dangerous energy crisis. It faces gas shortages, and electricity outages of up to 20 hours a day. […]
Read more »Drilling Down On the Iran – Pakistan Pipeline
April 5th, 2012
Via Foreign Policy, a report on the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project: The controversial Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline has become an increasingly problematic issue in the vacillating U.S-Pakistan relationship. The United States has strongly condemned the project, but such rhetoric seems only to have made Pakistan more determined to continue with it. An energy agreement between […]
Read more »Pakistan: Left Behind
March 1st, 2012
Via The Financial Times, a look at Pakistan’s economic under-performance: Last month, Pakistan celebrated the launch of a new railway service between Karachi, the commercial capital, and Lahore, near the border with India. Crammed with flatscreen televisions and attentive stewards, the Pak Business Express, run under a public-private partnership, completed its inaugural 1,200km voyage 10 […]
Read more »TAPI Pipeline: Pakistan Proposes Uniform Transit Fee
February 3rd, 2012
Via The Express Tribune, an article on Pakistan’s recent proposal of a uniform transit fee for the import of gas under the $7.6 billion Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project: “…Pakistan has proposed Afghanistan a uniform transit fee for the import of gas under the $7.6 billion Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project, government officials say. In […]
Read more »TAPI’ng Along
November 7th, 2011
Via the Khaleej Times, an updated report on the Turkmenistan-Afghan-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project. As the article notes: Turkmenistan-Afghan-Pakistan-India transnational gas pipeline, or TAPI, took a good step forward as Ashkabad and Islamabad have agreed on the illusive pricing formula and have vowed to complete it in the shortest possible time. Pakistan and Turkmenistan, at the […]
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