Summary The leaders emphasized the need for enhanced connectivity for peace and stability in the region.
TURKMENISTAN (Web Desk) - Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif arrived in the Mary city of Turkmenistan on Sunday to lay the foundation stone of Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project along with other regional leaders.
The trans-regional energy project, which will bring gas from energy-rich Turkmenistan, is being dubbed as a major initiative for bringing peace and enhancing connectivity in the region.
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PM Nawaz in his yesterday’s address emphatically stated that Pakistan attaches great importance to the TAPI project. With the completion of this project, Pakistan will get 1325 MMCFD supply of natural gas which will help overcome the energy deficit.
Meanwhile, PM Nawaz, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimohamedow and Indian Vice President Muhammad Hamid Ansari also held a meeting.
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They discussed the 10 billion dollars TAPI gas pipeline project which is expected to be completed by 2018.
The leaders emphasized the need for enhanced connectivity for peace and stability in the region.
The premier is on a two-day visit to Turkmenistan and is accompanied by State Minister for Petroleum Jam Kamal and Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Tariq Fatemi.
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TAPI, as the proposed 1,735-kilometer (1,140-mile) pipeline is known, is intended to carry 33 billion cubic meters of gas annually through the Afghan cities of Herat and Kandahar and end up in the India-Pakistan border town of Fazilka.
