By NNN-Xinhua,
Islamabad : Afghan Minister for Mines and Industries Engineer Ibrahim Adil arrived in Islamabad on Monday to attend talks on the multi-billion Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline.
The two-day ministerial level talks will last from April 23 to 24. Indian oil minister Murli Deora will also attend the TAPI meeting, which is planned to officially induct India into the project.
The project, now at its preliminary stage, is predicted to be completed by 2018.
The capital of the pipeline, that is to originate from Turkmenistan’s Daultabad gas field, is currently reported to have been revised to four billion dollars from 3.3 billion dollars in 2003.
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