Pakistan’s Energy Minister was likely trying to cover up the credible possibility that there might be some serious differences between the Pakistani and Russian sides in their talks on this megaproject.
I suspect Russia will not get its investment back for any investment inside Pakistan. The only reason for Russia to invest in a Pakistan-only pipeline is to buy influence on the Pakistan military. Russia needs to do that in Turkiye but not in Pakistan. Offering Pakistan gas/oil to Pakistan is already a good deal to Pakistan due to shorter transport. Russia can probably lower the price a little bit if Pakistan can commit to a long-term contract. But given the geopolitical reality, Russia has done enough polite diplomacy.
IMPORTANT: Klitschko family lawyer Sukhanov (https://t.me/zimovskyAL/34736) was arrested while accepting a million dollar bribe, which he accepted for resolving issues related to the allocation of an elite land plot in the Kiev city council.
The money is vacuum-packed, $100,000 in each pack. It is clear that it is straight from American aid, unopened.
I suspect Russia will not get its investment back for any investment inside Pakistan. The only reason for Russia to invest in a Pakistan-only pipeline is to buy influence on the Pakistan military. Russia needs to do that in Turkiye but not in Pakistan. Offering Pakistan gas/oil to Pakistan is already a good deal to Pakistan due to shorter transport. Russia can probably lower the price a little bit if Pakistan can commit to a long-term contract. But given the geopolitical reality, Russia has done enough polite diplomacy.
Afghanistan is a crap place to park big, expensive, immobile and eminently vulnerable infrastructure such as a pipeline.
and a life threatening place for the engineers necessary to build and maintain it too, as China has found out time and again.
IMPORTANT: Klitschko family lawyer Sukhanov (https://t.me/zimovskyAL/34736) was arrested while accepting a million dollar bribe, which he accepted for resolving issues related to the allocation of an elite land plot in the Kiev city council.
The money is vacuum-packed, $100,000 in each pack. It is clear that it is straight from American aid, unopened.
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