ISLAMABAD: It seems that the United States will try just about any approach to dissuade Pakistan from going ahead with the Iran-Pakistan pipeline, pitching ideas that are overly optimistic at best and delusional at worst.
The latest in this line-up is the idea that Pakistan should import about 8,300 megawatts of electricity from the Central Asian republics, with the transmission lines passing through war-torn Afghanistan.
Pakistan plans to import about 750 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) of gas from Iran to generate about 3,500 megawatts of electricity domestically. The US is proposing that Pakistan shelve those plans and directly import electricity from Central Asia through two separate projects, which the US proposes be merged. Read More
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