Pakistan has asked Iran for $2 billion to finance the
construction of its side of a controversial gas pipeline that has drawn
the threat of US sanctions, according to Pakistani Petroleum Minister
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on 8 October.
The Iranian side of the $7.5 billion project is almost
complete, but Pakistan has run into repeated problems paying for the
780 km section to be built on its side of the border. Abbasi told AFP
that preparatory work was complete but that Iranian money was needed
for the construction work.
'All these issues will be discussed in a meeting we have
requested, but so far there is no reply from the Iranian side,' Abbasi
said.
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