Putin declines invitation to visit Pakistan, claims report
Russian President Vladmir Putin has turned down Islamabads invitation to visit Pakistan and inaugurate a key pipeline project, a report carried by Indian news agency ANI said on Friday.
The high-level visit was supposed to have seen the Russian president inaugurate the $2 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) North-South Pipeline Project from Karachi to Lahore which would have had the potential of opening a new era of strategic and political alliance between the two countries.
Last year, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had invited Putin during his meeting with a Russian delegation led by Victor P Ivanov co-chairman of the Russia-Pakistan Inter-Governmental Commission (IGC) on Economic, Trade and Scientific Cooperation at the PMs House in Islamabad.
Putin might visit Pakistan before June, said Mobin Saulat, CEO and managing director of Inter State Gas Systems (ISGS), the Pakistani company handling the project. We are 200 million people. And we provide a gateway to other South Asian countries.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 30[SUP]th[/SUP], 2016.

Providing a reason for turning down the invitation, Moscow explains there is not enough substance in this trip. PHOTO: AFPRussian President Vladmir Putin has turned down Islamabads invitation to visit Pakistan and inaugurate a key pipeline project, a report carried by Indian news agency ANI said on Friday.
Providing a reason for turning down the invitation, Moscow explained that there was not enough substance in this trip, ANI news agency reported.
The high-level visit was supposed to have seen the Russian president inaugurate the $2 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) North-South Pipeline Project from Karachi to Lahore which would have had the potential of opening a new era of strategic and political alliance between the two countries.
Putin might visit Pakistan before June, said Mobin Saulat, CEO and managing director of Inter State Gas Systems (ISGS), the Pakistani company handling the project. We are 200 million people. And we provide a gateway to other South Asian countries.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 30[SUP]th[/SUP], 2016.
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