A well-placed Indian diplomat told Online that his government was actively contemplating to look back on the option of IPI. He claimed that India had never abandoned the project, officially. It was just gone down on the priority list mainly due to security concerns in Pakistan, he added.
Earlier India had practically abandoned Iran-Pakistan-India Gas Pipeline project for obvious reasons of entering into a nuclear deal with US. After India disembarked the trilateral mechanism for IPI, the pipeline was naturally left as only Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline.
According to the diplomat, the announcement to give effect to the rejuvenation of IPI was expected during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Pakistan in the near future. Premier Singh had accepted President Asif Ali Zardari's invitation on Sunday to visit Pakistan on mutually convenient dates.
We are an energy-deficient country and to sustain our high growth rate and ensure energy security, we need energy from every possible source, the diplomat observed. Read More
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