Pakistan is planning to ask the United States for an exemption from the sanctions that it will impose on a pipeline project to transport natural gas from the State of Iran. The government of Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif also intends to strengthen its position with political and technical reasons to the American administration, in order to obtain exemptions, according to statements by Petroleum Minister Mossadegh. Malik told reporters, who pointed out the inability of the pipeline project to bear the burden of sanctions.

Pakistan has sought for decades to obtain natural gas from Iran, which faces challenges in building its export sector despite having the largest fuel reserves in the world. These challenges are due to the sanctions imposed by the United Nations on Tehran in addition to restrictions on dollar transactions.

Pakistan and Iran had signed a 25-year agreement to supply gas, but the pipeline project was halted, resulting in an Iranian threat to take legal action.

Iran will begin laying an 80-kilometre, or 50-mile, pipeline from the Iranian border to the port of Gwadar in Pakistan, after the caretaker government approved it last February, according to Malik, who was quoted by The News newspaper as saying that the draft request is ready for submission. To the United States.

US Assistant Secretary of State Donald Law stated during a congressional hearing last week that the administration of President Joe Biden intends to maintain all sanctions currently imposed on Iran. He also added that the administration sought to help Pakistan find a source of natural gas other than Iran to fill the energy deficit it suffers from. The country.