Controversial 'TAPI' Pipeline Achieves Rare Consensus Among All Four

摘要

On 23rd February, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India broke fresh ground on the Afghan section of the belated, beleaguered and yet ambitious, multi-billion dollar gas pipeline, dubbed the TAPI pipeline, which is expected to help address energy deficits in South Asia. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov joined Pakistani premier Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and India's minister of state for external affairs Shri M. J. Akbar for the ceremony at gas-rich Turkmenistan's border with Afghanistan.