Iranian President Hassan Rouhani visit of Pakistan will improve the relations and defuse tension between Iran and Saudi Arabia, Pakistani journalist Asghar Ali Mubarak Islamabad- A Senior Pakistani…

Source: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani visit of Pakistan will improve the relations and defuse tension between Iran and Saudi Arabia, Pakistani journalist Asghar Ali Mubarak Islamabad- A Senior Pakistani journalist the president diplomatic correspondents of Pakistan Asghar Ali Mubarak said that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani visit of Pakistan will improve the relations and strengthening economic links. Pakistan’s role in the Middle East crisis would be constructive and positive with the aim to defuse tension between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visited Iran in May 2014 and in January this year to try to ease tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia.Talking to ARAB TV AL-MANAR channel’s chief reporter Roh-Al-Abbas Pakistani journalist Asghar Ali Mubarak said that the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani visit to Pakistan is very important for world peace. He said that the lifting of sanctions on Iran following its nuclear deal with the West “has opened new avenues for enhancing economic interaction”.The both leaders will discuss cooperation on regional and international issues during the meeting on Friday and Saturday, he said. Tehran has already built its own section of the 1,800-kilometre (1,100-mile) pipeline, which should eventually link its South Pars gas fields to the Pakistani city of Nawabshah near Karachi. As part of an ambitious $46 billion economic corridor linking western China to the Middle East through Pakistan, Beijing recently started work on the section of pipeline between Nawabshah and the port of Gwadar close to the Iranian border. A $7.5-billion Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline intended to feed Pakistani power plants was inaugurated with great fanfare in March 2013. But the project immediately hit quicksand in the form of the international sanctions on Tehran, which meant that cash-strapped Pakistan struggled to raise the money to build its section.Pakistan is counting on a joint project with Iran to solve a long-running power crisis that has sapped economic growth and left its 200 million people fuming at incessant electricity cuts.Once this is completed, Pakistan will build the last 80 kilometers to Iran.