Summary Pakistan strongly supports the project and its early completion, PM Nawaz said.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk / AFP) - Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been invited to attend ground breaking ceremony of TAPI gas pipeline project to be held in December this year, the Radio Pakistan reported on Tuesday.
The invitation has been extended to him by Deputy Prime Minister of Turkmenistan Baymurat Hojamuhamedov at a meeting in Islamabad.
The Prime Minister thanked for the invitation and said that Pakistan strongly supports the project and its early completion.
He said rail and road links between Gwadar and Central Asia would increase the economic activity in the region.
Nawaz Sharif said Pakistan would facilitate the Turkmenistan and Central Asian countries to develop rail and road links up to Gwadar.
The construction of a $10 billion gas pipeline stretching from Central to South Asia is set to begin in December, Pakistani officials said Monday after meeting with a delegation from Turkmenistan.
Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India have long planned the ambitious project to meet growing energy needs in the three South Asian countries but administrative issues and unrest in Afghanistan have so far delayed its realisation.
