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Iran-India Oil Pipeline Pipedreams
In the Iran sponsored imbroglio in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province, the one country that is being made out an ass is
India, whose pro-communist left leaning petroleum minister Mani
Shankar Aiyar wants an Indo-Pak-Iranian oil pipeline, thru which oil
would flow into India from Iran. Aiyar has fat hopes that this
pipeline would not be blown up by the Balouch rebels. Happenings in
Iraq should give a pointer to how vulnerable oil pipelines and
infrastructure is, given the very high inflammability of oil that
makes for the ease of causing dramatic explosions and sustained fires
thereafter.
 India's pro-communist anti-American petroleum minister, Mani Shankar Aiyar
______________________________ India vainly wants
assurances from Islamabad that Pakistan will be a good neighbor in
the future and that militant tribesmen in Pakistan's southwestern
province of Baluchistan will pose no threat to a pipeline running
through their territory. As though the unrest is of Pakistan's
making, although the Pakistanis would have their own reason to
disrupt oil from flowing into India. Last week Mani was a guest of
the Saudis to build another of his pipedreams a Delhi-Riyadh-Tehran
axis. This man needs to be watched for his being a harmful irritant
in US-India relations.
Incidentally, last week, Baluch tribals attacked production
facilities in Pakistan's biggest gas field last month, disrupting
supplies to the rest of the country for several days, to give an
indicator of how safe this pipeline to India will be. But who can
change Mani pipeline pipedreams in the light of these geopolitical
realities.
Story Credits : Washington Times
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