3 Nations Agree to Work on Arabian Sea Pipeline
From Times Wire Reports
CENTRAL ASIA
Pakistani, Afghan and Turkmen leaders agreed to resuscitate a long-standing dream of a $2-billion pipeline from gas fields in Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan’s Arabian Sea coast.
The leaders said the end of decades of fighting in Afghanistan meant that conditions were right.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf signed the agreement with Afghan interim Prime Minister Hamid Karzai and Turkmen President Saparmurad A. Niyazov.
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