Washington: The United States (US) State Department on Friday opposed the Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline and said that there are “better and more cost-effective” ways for Pakistan to address its energy needs.
Giving a routine press briefing, the US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said that the US understand the energy needs of Pakistan but there are other long-term solutions to the energy needs.
She further said that the US was involved in many ways to help Pakistan address its energy needs, including ones that will add some 900 megawatts of power to the grid by 2013, enough power to supply an estimated 2 million households.
These include renovating the power plant at Tarbela and the Mangla Dams, modernizing the thermal power plant at Guddu and Jamshoro, Muzaffargarh and building new plants at Satpara and the Gomal Dam.
“We’ve made clear to countries around the world, including Pakistan, that we believe that it’s in their interest to avoid activities that could be prohibited by UN sanctions or that could be sanctionable under US law.”
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