Govt forms high-powered body to break deadlock over Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline amid penalty threats

ISLAMABAD: With millions of dollars in potential penalties looming, the government has constituted a high-powered committee to find a “mutually acceptable” way out of the decades-old impasse over the Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline, as it weighs the cost of penalties against the country’s growing energy needs. Petroleum Minister Ali Pervaiz Malik told the Senate on Tuesday that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had set up the committee to examine the project’s legal, financial and energy dimensions an...

By [email protected] (Iftikhar A. Khan)