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2023-02-23 India-Pakistan

China Approves $700 Million Loan to Pakistan: Finance Minister

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Posted by trailing wife 2023-02-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top
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#1 Money down a rathole. One example: In 1995, repeat 1995, after much fanfare Turkmenistan and Pakistan signed the CentGas project that was to carry natural gas at a rate of up to 2 billion cubic ft/day from the Dauletabad field in southeast Turkmenistan to an energy poor Pakistan. The project would have been of great benefit to Pakistan. The Government of Turkmenistan guaranteed deliverability from what it called the Central Asia Gas Pipeline. It was a win-win for Pakistan, and no subsequent deal has ever been better. Twenty eight years later they are still talking about it, and Pakistan continues its ruinous economic policies.
That is the Pak way. Talk is better than action.

Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2023-02-23 12:27|| 2023-02-23 12:27|| Front Page Top

#2 I should have noted that Turkmenistan managed to complete what amounted to a 7,000 km. pipeline project that carried its natural gas to Xinjiang in the People's Republic of China.

Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2023-02-23 12:32|| 2023-02-23 12:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Pakistan is like a functional Palestine…

Posted by trailing wife 2023-02-23 15:32|| 2023-02-23 15:32|| Front Page Top

#4 The word "functional" is compounded in many ways. Functional alcoholic. Functional drug addict...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-23 15:34|| 2023-02-23 15:34|| Front Page Top