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World starts getting polarized around energy conflicts - India unfazed by US opposition to the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline
India has to take care of its energy needs. According to India nothing more important for India than the reliable source of energy. India, Pakistan and Iran agree on the Gas Pipeline. But US has shown increasing irritation over the Pipeline.
According to media sources, India yesterday said "it was unfazed" by US opposition to the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline, adding it would continue to pursue gas imports from Iran to meet its energy requirements.
"I am unfazed specially because my friend and Cambridge college mate, Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri had given a befitting reply (to US opposition) in Washington," Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said here.
US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is reported to have warned Pakistan of sanctions if it continued to pursue the proposed pipeline project to meet its energy demands.
"So long as India, Pakistan and Iran hang together, there is every assurance of energy needs of India and Pakistan being met on the basis of remunerative returns for Iran and affordable price for India and Pakistan," he said.
Kasuri is reported to have told Rice that Islamabad was pursuing the pipeline as Pakistan would be come an energy deficit country by 2009-10.
Aiyar said India needs 100 million standard cubic metre per day of gas at present and imports from countries in the neighbourhood like Iran were the only economic and sustainable source for meeting the needs of its fast growing economy.
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