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Pakistani, Iranian Officials Meet To Discuss Gas Pipeline
January 23, 2006
The route of the proposed pipeline (RFE/RL)
A Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Tasnim Aslam, said Iran's deputy minister for petroleum, Hadi Nejad Hosseinian, arrived in Islamabad for "technical talks" on the natural-gas pipeline.
She said work on the $4 billion project could start later this year. The 2,800-kilometer project is aimed at transporting gas from Iran to Pakistan and also on to India.
Iran proposed the pipeline in 1996, but the project failed to take off in large part due to tensions between India and Pakistan.
(AP)