Pakistan, India To Cooperate

Pakistan has agreed to work with India for accessing vast oil and gas reserves, Indian Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said.

"We agreed that our common interest lies in accessing low-cost energy and affordable fuel from our extended neighbourhood," Aiyar told reporters after the end of first round of talks between the technical experts of the two countries on how to pursue a proposed Iranian gas pipeline to India via Pakistan.

The Indian minister who had one-to-one meeting earlier in the day with his Pakistani counterpart Amanullah Khan Jadoon said the pipelines from Iran as well as Turkmenistan were their immediate focus.