Tom M
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-IPI (Iran Pakistan India gas pipeline)
-Iran was supposed to sell gas to India via Pakistan.
-Iran was supposed to build pipeline in Iran which she did.
-India was supposed to build pipeline in India which she didn't.
-Pakistan was supposed to build pipeline in Pakistan after getting funded by India and Iran and buy little gas afterwards for her own need as Pakistan already have limited reserves of gas which are enough for next 3 decades. But due to electricity crisis we wanted to use gas for power generation at that time, so IPI made sense at that time. Now after CPEC and Qatar LNG, it's useless.
-Neither India nor Iran paid Pakis money to build pipeline.
- India backed out of project because Pakistan might cut the supply line during crises and India doesn't want Pakistan to have any leverage.
- Now Iran is forcing/begging/requesting Pakistan to build pipeline on his own and buy gas from them on their OWN tariffs.
- So far Pakistan is only buying little bit of gas from Iran in Gwadar which is right next door to Iran.
Will Pakistan build pipeline all the way to Karach and Lahore and buy gas from Iran on thier own high tariffs especially at a time when we don't even desperately need gas? Time will tell.
PS-(This is what I have understood so far and I could be wrong)
Seriously ???? Do you think India just agreed to fund a project in Pakistan ?? LOL
But one thing is correct. It is India who backed out initially. It's because we have our on plans for an undersea Iran-India gas pipeline, exclusively for us.