ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP) leader Makhdoom Amin Fahim has congratulated Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on his election as the leader of the House. Speaking on the floor of the House after losing the election to Nawaz Sharif, he said his party will extend full cooperation to the new ...

BEIJING : A section of a cross-country gas pipeline in China exploded on Sunday, injuring at least two people and halting gas supplies, local media said.The second west-east natural gas pipeline, which transports gas from central Asia to south China, exploded in an industrial zone in China's ...

DHAKA - Joining the Iran-Pakistan-India natural gas pipeline project would give Bangladesh access to Iranian gas and resolve its energy crisis, Bangladeshi Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith said. Bangladesh has a natural gas deficit and at some point will have to import gas, Muhith told ...

Pakistan's Foreign Ministry officials have said that a plan to consider India in the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline, in the backdrop of reported talks between Iran and India, will be taken only after a formal request is made by New Delhi. That is a sane approach.Naturally when India – once a part ...

islamabad - Iranian and Indian oil ministers are due to discuss extension of a gas pipeline project which is due to take Iran’s rich gas reserves to Pakistan and then to India in a meeting in New Delhi next week.Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qassemi is slated to visit New Delhi next week to ...

umerkot - Militants blew up a gas pipeline to Punjab in Umerkot with explosives, suspending supply to various areas on Saturday. Unknown miscreants had planted explosive material and exploded the 30-inch diameter gas pipeline near Umerkot area of Sindh. As a result of the blast a portion of the ...

LAHORE - President Asif Ali Zardari has ruled out any compromise on the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project saying that ‘no power can disrupt it’.Talking to the editors, columnists and senior journalists at Bilawal House on Saturday, President Zardari said that he would not betray the ...

United States (US) Ambassador to Pakistan, Richard Olson, on Monday said that US has concerns on Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline project.During his visit at Quaid-e-Azam’s Mausoleum in Karachi, the US ambassador said, “We do have concerns about Iran’s potential development as a nuclear ...