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March 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Speaking to reporters at a press conference at Pakistan’s Foreign Office on Thursday, Hina Rabbani Khar noted that it is in Pakistan’s national interests to acquire energy from wherever it was available.
The Pakistani foreign minister added that Islamabad “cannot afford to be selective” with regard to energy supply sources and that no decision against the country’s national interests will be taken by the government in this regard.
She also emphasized that her country was facing a real energy crisis.
Energy-hungry Pakistan is looking to increase its fuel imports from various sources, including Iran, to reduce power shortages that have crippled the country’s industry and shaved percentage points off its GDP growth.
In addition to importing oil from Iran, Islamabad has been in talks with Tehran over the construction of a gas pipeline which is to transfer Iran’s natural gas to Pakistan.
Washington has frequently indicated its resentment at the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project.
On February 18, US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters that despite Pakistan’s firm decision to go on with the project, Washington still believes that it is a ‘bad idea.’
An article published by the International Herald Tribune on January 25, said Washington is trying to lure Islamabad away from the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project by offering cheaper gas to the country.
On February 17, Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari noted that his country’s ties with Iran would not be “undermined” by any international pressure and Islamabad is determined to go ahead with joint projects with Tehran, including the gas pipeline.
The multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline aims to export a daily amount of 21.5 million cubic meters (or 8.7 billion cubic meters per year) of the Iranian natural gas to Pakistan.
The maximum daily gas transfer capacity of the 56-inch pipeline which runs over 900 km of Iran’s soil from Asalouyeh in Bushehr Province to the city of Iranshahr in Sistan and Baluchestan Province has been given at 110 million cubic meters.
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