Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs Ishaq Dar expressed confidence that the construction of the “Peace” gas pipeline with Iran will be completed, despite the warnings of the United States. The Dawn periodical reports about this.
The United States has announced that it does not approve of the implementation of the Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline project, and has warned of the risk of sanctions in case of doing business with Tehran.
“We should be guided by our own interests and act according to them, regardless of what the US or other countries say. It cannot be dictated to us, and we will not allow anyone to veto it. Pakistan is a sovereign state, we respect the sovereignty of other countries and expect others to respect the sovereignty of Pakistan,” Dar said at a press conference in Islamabad.
The Foreign Minister of Pakistan added that he highly appreciates the official visit of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi to Islamabad in April, during which the issue of completing the construction of the “Peace” gas pipeline was discussed, despite geopolitical problems and possible American sanctions.
According to the agreement with Iran, Pakistan was obliged to build its section of the pipeline by January 2015, but its construction was never completed due to US sanctions on Tehran and Washington’s refusal to complete the construction of the pipeline. In early April, Pakistan began building its section of the pipeline from Gwadar in Balochistan province to the border with Iran to avoid an $18 billion fine from an international arbitration court over delays in the construction and operation of the main pipeline.
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