ISLAMABAD, May 30 Kyodo Pakistan,...

ISLAMABAD, May 30 Kyodo

Pakistan, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan signed an agreement forward Thursday to build a 1,500-kilometer gas pipeline from Daulatabad gas field in Turkmenistan to the southern Pakistani port Gwadar by means of Afghanistan.

The agreement was signed according to Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Afghan leader Hamid Karzai and Turkmenistan President Supermurat Niyazov at a rite in Islamabad.

Musharraf said the throw out will provide the shortest way for the export of natural gas from Central Asian states to the Far East, Japan and the West.

A liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant will be built at Gwadar for the conversion of gas into LNG for export, he said.

Niazov said Turkmenistan has gas something reserveds of 23 trillion cubic feet

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