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India to sign Turkmenistan gas pipeline project; Pak told to drop IPI transit fee

	April 28, 2008

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister, Murli Deora, is leading an Indian delegation to Pakistan to sign the agreement for the US-backed $3.5 billion Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India [TAPI] gas pipeline project at the invitation of the Asian Development Bank. The Steering Committee of the TAPI pipeline is meeting in Islamabad which will witness India formally joining the project. Besides signing the Project Heads of Agreement, the four nations would also ink a Gas Pipeline Frame ...