Russian Foreign Ministry expects to continue construction of "Pakistan Stream" under Sharif

“The current Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, leads exactly the party, namely the Pakistan Muslim League, which was in power at the time of the signing in October 2015 of an agreement between the government of the Russian Federation and the government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on cooperation and the implementation of the North- South ”(later it was renamed“ Pakistani Stream. -

) ”, the diplomat said.

Zakharova stressed that the project is mutually beneficial and Pakistan is "well aware" of this.

“Its implementation will both give impetus to Pakistani energy and help solve the problem of energy shortage in this country.

It is also beneficial to us.

Based on this, we expect that under the new government of Pakistan, work on this project will continue,” said Maria Zakharova.

Earlier, the lower house of Pakistan's parliament elected opposition candidate Sharif as the country's new prime minister.

Before that, the National Assembly of Pakistan voted for a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Imran Khan.

As Russian Energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov noted, the throughput capacity of the Pakistan Stream gas pipeline could reach 16 billion cubic meters.

m per year.

Pakistan's economy minister estimates that the pipeline will cost $3.5 billion.

The gas pipeline is to link the infrastructure for receiving liquefied gas in the ports of Karachi and Gwadar in southern Pakistan with power plants and industrial gas consumers in Kasur district (Punjab) in the north of the country.

The length of the pipeline under the project will be more than 1.1 thousand km.