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March 22nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Governor of Balochistan Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi advised the government not to accept foreign pressure on the project, saying it will further strengthen the bilateral ties between the two neighboring states.
“If the West can have nuclear technology then why not Iran? We should go ahead with the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project,” he added while answering a question about the West’s efforts to stymie Iran’s nuclear energy program.
Pakistan’s Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar told domestic media that Tehran and Islamabad had very strong ties and were also trying to take their relationships to the highest level.
“It is very important for us to have the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline and we are trying to complete the project as early as possible,” he added.
According to News Pakistan website, Farooq Sattar, a senior leader of MQM Party and Federal Minister of Overseas Pakistanis, also supported the project, noting that bilateral relations were strong between Iran and Pakistan.
He added that it was obligatory for the two countries to have the best of the relations “to overcome the challenges that both countries are facing at the international level.”
The Pakistani official also stated that increase in bilateral trade is the need of hour and “the gas pipeline project will become an opportunity to bring the two countries closer.”
“The [gas pipeline] project will give a boost to the economies of Iran and Pakistan and bring economic stability to the region as well,” Farooq Sattar said.
In a separate interview, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam and Chairman of Parliamentary Kashmir Committee said that Pakistan should have strong ties with neighboring countries.
“We fully support the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project that will overcome the energy crisis in Pakistan,” he added.
Stressing the need to further enhance the trade between two brotherly states, Fazlur Rehman stated that Pakistan and Iran were fully capable of solving regional problems through a joint strategy.
The multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline aims to export a daily amount of 21.5 million cubic meters (or 7.8 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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