ISLAMABAD: Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, refuting the allegations levelled by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) regarding corruption in LNG project, has said that the liquefied natural gas (LNG) deal with Qatar was being done in a transparent.
Replying to a calling attention notice of Shireen Mazari, Asad Omar and others in the national Assembly, the minister further said that the international community had declared this agreement Asia’s cheapest deal.
Abbasi said the PTI was only getting political point scoring on this project of national importance, adding that to meet gas supply, the only way was to import LNG. He said the government was also working on Pak-Iran gas pipeline and Turkmenistan Afghanistan Pakistan and India (TAPI) gas pipeline.
He rejected the PTI stance that power producers were not taking interest in LNG deal, adding that the project would save billions of dollars annually and would help overcome energy crisis.
