{"id":6470,"date":"2013-03-11T05:16:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T05:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/pakistan-iran-gas-link-defies-us\/"},"modified":"2013-03-11T05:19:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T05:19:34","slug":"pakistan-iran-gas-link-defies-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/pakistan-iran-gas-link-defies-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan-Iran Gas link Defies US"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2153 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ssd.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan and Iran&#8217;s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are inaugurating a controversial gas pipeline linking the two neighbours.}}<\/p>\n<p>The US has warned that the project could incur sanctions connected with Iran&#8217;s nuclear programme.<\/p>\n<p>The long-delayed pipeline is seen in Pakistan as a way of alleviating the country&#8217;s chronic energy shortages.<\/p>\n<p>The work on the Iranian side is almost complete. Monday marks the start of construction in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 780km (485 miles) of pipeline is due to be built in the country over the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>Talks on the project began in 1994 and the pipeline was initially intended to carry gas on to India, but Delhi withdrew from negotiations in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The US says the project would enable Iran to sell more of its gas, undermining efforts to step up pressure over Tehran&#8217;s nuclear activities.<\/p>\n<p>Washington has also argued that there are other ways to ease Pakistan&#8217;s energy crisis.<\/p>\n<p>But power shortages have become a major issue there, and the Pakistani government insists it will not bow to pressure.<\/p>\n<p>BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan and Iran&#8217;s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are inaugurating a controversial gas pipeline linking the two neighbours.}} The US has warned that the project could incur sanctions connected with Iran&#8217;s nuclear programme. The long-delayed pipeline is seen in Pakistan as a way of alleviating the country&#8217;s chronic energy shortages. The work on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-6470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6470"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=6470"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=6470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}