Iran, Pakistan Talks on finalizing gas pipeline in Offing
By Laiylla Sherazi 'Pakistan Times' Foreign Correspondent

TEHRAN (Iran): Iranian and Pakistani officials will meet here this week to finalize the text of a contract for the proposed gas pipeline project, Iranian officials said Wednesday.

A Pakistani delegation is visiting Tehran November 7-9 at the invitation of Iran to make arrangements for signing the contract, they said.

Iranian oil minister’s special envoy Hojjatollah Ghanimifard had already stated that the text of the contract would be given final touches during the meeting.

" We have invited Pakistani officials to Tehran to restudy the text,” he said.

In the last round of Iran-Pakistan negotiations in Islamabad, 75 percent of the text was finalized and later the Iranian legal experts made some changes and sent the remaining part to their Pakistani counterparts.●