- Vice-President Hamid Ansari will join Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani along with his host Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on Sunday to press a button that will forge the first pipeline to supply Turkmen gas to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, (TAPI) with a final length of nearly 1,800 km by the time of its completion in 6-7 years.
- The project has potential to extract from it between 15-25% of its natural gas needs of India. India joined TAPI in 2008.
- Afghanistan, which will receive about 16% of the gas (India and Pakistan will have a share of 42% each) from the pipeline, would also receive an estimated $200-$250 mil-lion as transit fees from Pakistan.
- Similarly, India would pay Pakistan transit fees for the pipeline that will originate in Turkmenistan's south east areas, travel through Herat, Fa-rah and Helmand provinces of Afghanistan, entering Pakistan in Balochistan and then cutting across Pakistan Pun-jab to reach the border area of Fazilka-Abohar in Indian Punjab.
- The cost of laying infrastructure to protect the pipe-line from possible attacks will affect the TAPI's viability.
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