Pak-Iran gas agreement within weeks: Dr Asim

October 13th, 2009 Russian FM: threat of sanctions counterproductiveMOSCOW — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday that the threat of sanctions against Iran would be counterproductive, resisting U.S. efforts to win agreement for measures if Iran fails to prove its nuclear program is peaceful.

October 1st, 2009 Iran open to higher level talks with world powersUNITED NATIONS — Iran's foreign minister said Thursday his nation is willing to raise and extend its dialogue on a wide variety of issues to a "summit" level with world powers. Manouchehr Mottaki told reporters that Iran went into talks Thursday near Geneva with the United States and five other world powers with "a clear agenda and a plan of action." "And we have entered into these discussions with this clear agenda, and this dialogue can also be enhanced, both in form and the level of discussions," he said in Farsi, speaking through a translator at a news conference at U.N.

September 7th, 2009 Venezuela to export gasoline to IranTEHRAN, Iran — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sealed an agreement to export 20,000 barrels per day of gasoline to Iran, state TV reported Monday. The deal would give Tehran a cushion if the West carries out threats of fuel sanctions over Iran's nuclear program.

September 7th, 2009 TEHRAN, Iran — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran is ready to hold talks with the world powers over global challenges including its nuclear program. Ahmadinejad said Monday Iran will initially present its package of proposals to the five permanent members of the U.N.

July 15th, 2009 EU urges Iran to resolve nuclear standoffSTRASBOURG, France — The European Union said Wednesday that Iran has a few months, at best, to find a diplomatic resolution with the international community over its contested nuclear program. Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, whose country holds the EU presidency, said the international community faces "difficult choices in the next ...

June 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The top US military commander in Iraq said Tuesday that Iran continues to back militants responsible for attacks even as the level of support has declined. General Ray Odierno said the training of militants in Iran has continued as has the flow of weapons and ammunition across the border into Iraq.

June 6th, 2009 ANKARA - Pakistan and Iran have formally signed an agreement to activate a bilateral gas pipeline project. The Iranian National Oil Company (INOC) and the Pakistan Interstate Gas Company (PIGC) signed the agreement late on Friday, Geo News reported.

May 25th, 2009 TEHRAN - Tehran and Islamabad have signed a deal for supplying Iranian gas to Pakistan, IRNA reported. As part of the plan a pipeline will be laid between the two countries through which Iran would supply natural gas to Pakistan.

May 25th, 2009 TEHRAN - Pakistan and Iran signed an inter-governmental framework declaration to support the gas deal signed by the oil ministries of the respective countries. President Asif Ali Zardari and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad signed the declaration on Sunday Earlier, the Gas Sale Purchase Agreement was signed by the managing directors of the National Iranian Oil Company and Pakistan's Inter-state Gas System for the export of Iranian natural gas to Pakistan at the border of Iran-Pakistan for domestic consumption in Pakistan, the Daily Times reports.

May 18th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iran and Pakistan will hold the last round of the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline talks in Tehran next week, the special representative of Iran's oil minister to the talks has said. 'A Pakistani delegation headed by Minister of Petroleum and Natural Resources Asim Hussain is to arrive in Tehran May 23 to finalise the Peace Pipeline deal based on the new price formula,' Hojjatollah Ghanimifard was quoted as saying by Mehr news agency.

April 23rd, 2009 Iran says pipeline agreement reached with IraqTEHRAN, Iran — Iran's official news agency says Tehran has reached an agreement with Iraq to build a pipeline that will feed Iraqi crude to an Iranian refinery. The agreement marks another step in strengthening relations between two majority Shiite countries that fought a deadly eight-year war in the 1980s.

February 16th, 2009 MOSCOW - Russia has said it will not change its policy towards Iran under pressure from Europe and the US, IRNA reported Tuesday. Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Borodavkin said: 'Despite some countries which demanded for a change in Russia's policy on Iran, Russian officials see no reason for doing so.' The Russian leader was referring to the recent Munich Security Conference in Germany where some European leaders urged Russia to change its stand on Iran, which they believe is trying to make a nuclear weapon.

February 12th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iran has signed an agreement with Iraq to help reconstruct and preserve histrocial sites and museums in the war-ravaged country, the official IRNA news agency reported Friday. According to the agreement signed Friday between the two countries, Iran will contribute to building special museums in Karbala and Najaf that will accommodate relics belonging to Shia Imams.

February 9th, 2009 KARACHI - Pakistan Tuesday recalled discarded middle-order batsmen Faisal Iqbal and Asim Kamal in a preliminary 22-man squad for the opening Test against Sri Lanka scheduled to get underway in Karachi from Feb 21. New captain Younis Khan heads the provisional squad which has no place for medium pacer Rao Iftikhar Anjum.

February 5th, 2009 BAGHDAD - Iraq’s Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani has said that the Iran-Iraq talks on joint oilfields were going ahead well and an oil deal was expected to be signed by March 20, IRNA reported. The agreement is to be inked in line with Iraq’ efforts to develop its oilfields and increase oil and gas exports, Shahristani said.