Pakistan needs to learn lessons from failed Iran gas pipeline project

Islamabad should take a more strategic and realistic approach to its energy challenges

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An Iranian worker in southeastern Iran, near the Pakistani border welds two gas pipes at the beginning of construction in March 2013 of a pipeline to transfer natural gas between the two countries. © AP

Vandana Hari is founder of Vanda Insights, a Singapore-based global energy market intelligence provider.

Pakistan has no good options in navigating the legal quagmire and Iran's ire after failing to complete a natural gas pipeline connecting the two nations a whole decade after construction was originally meant to conclude. Missing out on a much-needed supply of a relatively clean fossil fuel -- the project stands next to nil chances of materializing -- is a double blow for Islamabad.

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