UrduPoint News- Prime MinisterShahid Khaqan AbbasiMonday said thatPakistanandIranshould work together and make their utmost efforts for enhancing the bilateral trade to $5billionby 2021. In a meeting with Foreign Minister ofIranDr. Javad Zarif, who called on him here, theprime ministerreaffirmedPakistan's desire to enhance mutually beneficial economic ...

SHANA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the Iranian government is ready to commit itself to provide safe and reliable energy, be it oil, gas or electricity. Addressing reporters following a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and military chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajawa on the second day of a three-day visit ...

president.ir- President Rouhani meets Prime Minister of Pakistan Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, on Tuesday evening on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.  

Tasnim President of Iran said the country is prepared to supply Pakistans needs for energy and to construct power plants across the border areas to export electricity to its neighbor. We are ready to supply energy to Pakistan, and also welcome the Pakistani investors in this sphere, President Hassan Rouhani said in a meeting with Prime Minister ...

MNA Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has forwarded a message of congratulation to Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on his election as Pakistans new prime minister. In his message forwarded on Sunday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani congratulated Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on his election as Pakistans new prime minister. President Rouhani voiced hope for further ...

IRNA -- Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz candidate Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was elected as Prime Minister of Pakistan on Tuesday. He has been elected to the office having secured 221 votes out of a total house membership of 342. Pakistani parliament had to go for the election after the former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was disqualified from the Supreme ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Pakistan Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Sahid Khaqan Abbasi is going to lead a delegation to Tehran next month (May) to discuss Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline deal with his Iranian counterpart. Managing Director of Pakistans Inter State Gas Systems Mobin Solat said that the countrys oil ministry has received an invitation ...

Islamabad, Jan 28, IRNA Pakistan minister for petroleum and natural resources said he would lead a delegation to Iran on February 6-7, to discuss ways to accelerate work on completion of Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project. Shahid Khaqan Abbasi told IRNA on Thursday that he is visiting Iran on the invitation of his Iranian counterpart Bijan Namdar-...

A Pakistan minister appears to have put the kibosh on expectations that a pipeline intended to take Iranian gas to the country could ever be completed. Pakistani officials have made contradictory statements about the project, with Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi casting further doubt on the plan on Wednesday. It ...

Officials in Pakistan say they will be able to resume the joint gas pipeline project with Iran now that the nuclear talks with the P5+1 have ended ina conclusion. Pakistan's Minister of Petroleum and Natural ResourcesShahid Khaqan Abbasisaid Wednesday that Islamabad is hopeful to revive the stalled project, which is expected to deliver Iranian gas ...

Islamabad, April 18, IRNA - Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources of Pakistan Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said Islamabad is to sign an agreement with a Chinese company to build gas pipeline from Gwadar to Nawabshah, the main part of Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project. The agreement will be signed during a visit to Pakistan by Chinese President ...

ISLAMABADChina will build a pipeline to bring natural gas from Iran to Pakistan to help address Pakistans acute energy shortage, under a deal to be signed during the Chinese presidents visit to Islamabad this month, Pakistani officials said. The arrival of PresidentXi Jinpingis expected to showcase Chinas commitment to infrastructure development ...

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said that the country was in dire need of having gas from neighboring Iran. In an exclusive interview with IRNA on Saturday, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said that so far, Pakistan has spent tens of millions of dollars for importing gas from Iran. 'There is no doubt in Pakistan's ...

Islamabad, Dec 28, IRNA Pakistans Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi totally rejected statements attributed to him by the Financial Times on Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline. On December 26, the UK based newspaper Financial Times wrote: Energy-starved Pakistan has convinced Iran to step back from demanding $200m a ...

Energy-starvedPakistanhas convinced Iran to step back from demanding $200m a month from January 1 to compensate for Islamabads failure to begin receivinggas from Irans South Parsgasfield, according to the countrys minister for petroleum. Pakistan has in the past said the Iranian gas is the cheapest option available as its own reserves in the countrys ...

Islamabad, Dec 9, IRNA Pakistan is in dire need of energy and determined to complete its part of the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline, Pakistani Oil Minister Shahed Khaqan Abbassi said here Monday. We have recently reached agreement with the China National Petroleum (CNPC) for partnership in implementing 700 kilometer pipeline from the Gwadar Port, 70 ...

ISLAMABAD:Iran has waived off penalty over delay in construction of Iran-Pakistan (IP) Gas Pipeline and also extended the time limit for the construction of the project, while Pakistan has now decided to construct the gasline by next year. Sources in the petroleum ministry told Daily Times that Iranian Minister for Economic Affairs & Finance, ...

Islamabad, Oct 27, IRNA - Pakistans Petroleum and Natural Resources Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi departed Islamabad for Tehran on Monday. He is scheduled to meet senior Iranian officials over the import of energy including electricity and gas from Iran. Accomplishment of the under-construction multi-billion-dollar Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline ...

A senior Iranian energy official says Iran is currently waiting for Pakistan to put forward its proposal for the completion of the multi-billion-dollar pipeline projected to carry natural gas from Iran to its eastern neighbor. Iran's Deputy Oil Minister for Trade and International Affairs Ali Majedi said on Wednesday that Pakistani Federal Minister ...

ISLAMABAD: Minister of Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has insisted that international sanctions against Iran are still a hurdle in the way of Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project and Tehran is not angry over Pakistans stance. Speaking ina meeting of sub-committee of the Senate Standing Committee on Petroleum here on Wednesday,...