Iranian and Pakistani experts have started talks on the $7.4 billion Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline in Tehran without the participation of India, who says
it will not attend the tri-nation meetings unless transit fee issue is resolved with Islamabad.
Iran had called a meeting of technical experts and lawyers from the three nations during September 24-26 to exchange views on the gas-supply contract that India and Pakistan, as consumers, would have to sign with fuel supplier Iran. Officials of the three countries were to then discuss the issue on September 27.
New Delhi and Islamabad have reached a broad understanding on the transportation tariff payable to Pakistan for wheeling natural gas through the 1,035-km
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