Source: CNN
Pakistan (CNN) — Iran has condemned the kidnapping of one of its diplomats in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, calling it an “act of terrorism,” an Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said.
“Pakistan should do its best to protect foreign diplomats and their residential places,” the spokesman Hassan Qashqavi said, according to Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency.
At […]

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Source: Tehran Times
TEHRAN – Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Sunday called for closer cooperation between Iran, India, and Pakistan in their efforts to bring back “tranquility” to the war-torn Afghanistan.
“Resolving the current crisis in Afghanistan requires extensive cooperation between the Islamic Republic of Iran, India and Pakistan. This cooperation can bring tranquility to […]

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Source: Christian Science Monitor
It hopes a deal to ship Iranian gas to India via Pakistan can boost its energy supply, regional ties.
GWADAR, PAKISTAN - Along the scenic coast in Pakistan’s gas-rich Balochistan Province, a weathered roadside shop advertises “fuel available at every price.”
Inside, heady fumes fill a room stacked with cylinders of compressed gas and […]

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Source: Times of India
NEW DELHI: Iran and Pakistan may have announced going ahead with the IPI (Iran-Pakistan-India) gas pipeline project even without India, but Iran apparently is still doing its bit to ensure India eventually joins them.
In one of its GSPA (Gas Supply Purchase Agreement) proposals which was discussed during the recent meeting of foreign […]

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Source: Tehran Times
TEHRAN – Pakistan’s charge d’Affaires to Iran Nasrullah Khan said that Tehran and Islamabad are cooperating very well on the security of their borders.
“Pakistan is very sensitive about Iran’s security concerns,” he told reporters conference on Saturday on the sidelines of a ceremony held to mark Pakistan’s Defense Day.
“We call Iran-Pakistan border a […]

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Source: New York Times
For months, Senators John McCain and Barack Obama have argued over whether Iraq was the right war to fight in 2003. On Friday night they delved for the first time into the problems one of them will face on Jan. 20: Whether America has to be ready to carry out military action […]

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Source: Daily Times
NEW YORK: Significant progress had been made on the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline and the foreign ministers of the two countries will meet in early October to flesh things out, Information Minister Sherry Rehman told a press conference on Tuesday.
She said Iran and Pakistan would set up a joint company with Iran providing the […]

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Source: Daily Times
*Expected to agree on 40 cents per mmbtu
By Zafar Bhutta
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India are set to announce the gas transit fee within a week for the transmission of gas to India under the billion dollar Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project, sources told Daily Times on Wednesday.
The sources said that Pakistan and India are […]

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Source: AGI
(AGI) - ISLAMABAD, 28 April. - The ‘gas diplomacy’ which was proposed by Mahmud Ahmadinejad has started to bear bear fruits: Pakistan has given the go ahead to the building of a pipeline which will connect Iran and India. The Iranian president visited Islamabad to organize a deal for another pipeline along the Karakoum […]

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Source: The Associated Press
NEW DELHI (AFP) — India’s oil minister Murli Deora was to hold talks in Pakistan this week on a seven-billion dollar transnational gas pipeline from Iran, a senior oil ministry official said Tuesday.
Deora’s three-day visit is the first contact between the rival South Asian states since the new coalition government took office […]

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Source: Khaleej Times
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan and India have decided to resolve their differences over tariff and transit fee for the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project by holding talks in Islamabad on April 16-18.
Later the petroleum ministers of both Pakistan and India would meet on April 23 of this month to finalise the issue. Informed […]

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By Ali Usman
LAHORE: Iran could help Pakistan’s film industry flourish by organising film-making courses and training programmes for the latter’s film directors and producers if they (directors and producers) showed willingness, Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) Cultural Institute President Muhammad Rajabi told Daily Times.
Rajabi said Iran had already signed a joint filmmaking project with the Republic […]

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Source: The Hindu
NEW DELHI: In a major development that could result in a breakthrough, Pakistan has invited India for talks on finalising the $7.4 billion Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline deal.
“I received an invitation from Pakistan’s Energy Minister to visit Islamabad to finalise the transit fee issue so that the IPI pipeline deal could be wrapped up soon,” […]

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Source: Bloomberg
By Dinakar Sethuraman
March 11 (Bloomberg) — Iran, the world’s No. 2 holder of oil and gas reserves, will sign a final agreement to export gas via pipeline to Pakistan in April, an official from the National Iranian Gas Co. said.
Iran has completed half of the pipeline, which will have a capacity to carry 110 […]

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Source: Tehran Times
In line with great maritime traditions and to further strengthen the existing warm and cordial relations, a Pakistan Navy Mission comprising Pakistan Navy Submarine Hurmat and three ships, namely the PNS Muhafiz, PNS Gwadar and PNS Jurrat, arrived in Bandar Abbas on Monday morning on a goodwill cruise to the Islamic Republic of […]

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He also called on Washington to change its standpoint towards Iran and said it had to understand that the Iraqi people did not like America.

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Source: The Economic Times
ISLAMABAD: Sources in Pakistan’s Ministry of Law have accused India of adopting delaying tactics in signing the landmark tripartite Gas Sales Purchase Agreement (GSPA), involving Iran, Pakistan and India.
Pakistan claims that it has been inviting India to hold the talks for settling the issues of the transit fee for gas transportation, but […]

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Source: Daily Times
By Zafar Bhutta
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Iran may sign the Gas Sales Purchase Agreement (GSPA) in Tehran in last week of the current month on Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project, sources told Daily Times here on Thursday.
Sources said that Iran has proposed February 24 to sign GSPA on IPI gas pipeline project in Tehran […]

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Source: Washington Post
By Malou Innocent
America’s most vulnerable ally in the war on terror is Pakistan. But our alliance with the nuclear-armed Islamic state may be exacerbating that country’s instability.
For eight years, Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf has delayed, deferred and ultimately denied his citizens the right to freely choose their next leader. U.S. policymakers and analysts […]

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Source: Tehran Times
TEHRAN (PIN) — British Petroleum has voiced readiness to take part in the construction of the India-Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline in the Pakistani territory.
A senior BP official has noted that it is ready to participate in laying the gas pipeline across the Pakistani territory under the Iran-Pakistan-India project, Pakistan’s Daily Times reported.
He said that […]

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Source: The Economic Times
NEW DELHI: Iran is unlikely to sign next week a bilateral agreement with Pakistan for export of natural gas and has said it was keen on India joining the tri-nation ‘peace’ pipeline project. “As we speak, there is no ceremony scheduled for signing of Gas Sales Purchase Agreement (GSPA) with Pakistan next […]

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Source: Daily TImes
* Pakistan and Iran to sign GSPA next week
* Country to save $1bn in terms of energy
* India’s participation to affect pipeline’s diameter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has convinced the United States on the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project as Pakistan and Iran will sign the Gas Sales Purchase Agreement (GSPA) next week, according to an […]

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Source: China View
ISLAMABAD — Iranian ambassador to Islamabad Mash Allah Shakeri has said that Pakistan and Iran are set to finalize an agreement on the multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline project by Jan. 25 this year, according to a report by the private NNI news agency Sunday.

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Source: New Statesman
The west has often regarded the civilian dimension of Pakistani politics as a hindrance to its security priorities
Over the past decade one country has caused more alarm in the west than any other over its weapons of mass destruction. It is neither North Korea, nor Iraq, nor even Iran. Pakistan is the concern.

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Source: Tehran Times
TEHRAN (PIN) – The next round of technical negotiations of Iranian and Pakistani experts on the peace pipeline will be held here next week.
The 11th Pakistan-Iran Joint Working Group (JWG) meeting on Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project was held in Islamabad Tuesday.
The two sides held an in-depth discussion on technical, financial, commercial and, […]

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