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Pakistan and neighboring India began talks Sunday on a proposed pipeline - opposed by the United States - that would bring natural gas to both countries from Iran, officials said.
The 1,735-mile pipeline - proposed by Iran in 1996 - has never gotten off the ground because of India's concern for the security of the pipeline in Pakistan, its archrival for the past six decades.
However, tensions between India and Pakistan have eased in the past year and a half, and their governments have agreed to work toward building the pipeline, despite opposition from Washington, an ally of both countries.
Mani Shankar Aiyar, India's petroleum and natural gas minister, and his Pakistani counterpart, Amanullah Khan Jadoon, began the two-day talks in Pakistan's capital Islamabad.
At the meeting, Aiyar said he informed the Pakistani minister that India is not facing any U.S. pressure to abandon the proposed Iran gas pipeline project.
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