On April 24, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his team of ministers concluded a three-day visit to Pakistan. This visit followed January’s tit-for-tat missile attacks, briefly straining relations between the two states.
Raisi’s visit was announced soon after Iran and Israel’s attacks on each other. Conflict watchers thus viewed the visit as Iran’s diplomatic outreach to gather support. For Pakistani analysts, the visit was planned long before and had a different purpose: to discuss the legal issue associated with the much-delayed Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project, also known as the Peace Pipeline. Though the heads of both states did not explicitly mention the pipeline, Oil Minister of Iran Javad Owji emphasized Islamabad’s interest in the quick operationalization of Iran’s gas exports to Pakistan. He also met his counterpart Musadik Masood Malik, Pakistan’s minister of state for petroleum. Overlooking the United States’ displeasure, Pakistan’s foreign office has reiterated its commitment to the completion of the Peace Pipeline.
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