NEW DELHI -- The Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline -- a proposed $7.5 billion, 2,700-kilometer pipeline linking Iran's abundant natural gas reserves to energy-hungry Pakistan and India -- has been under consideration for years. But despite both India's and Pakistan's desperate need for energy sources, progress on the project has been hampered so far by strategic calculations, mutual suspicions and disagreements on pricing and tariffs.
Indications, however, are that the Iran-Pakistan stretch of the pipeline may take off soon. And with the U.S.-India nuclear agreement now concluded, India might be giving it more serious consideration, too. ...
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