Nauraiz Shakoor Khan, Pakistani Minister for Petroleum and Natural
Resources, addresses journalists in the port city of Karachi on May 22,
2003. He said that Pakistan plans to persuade nuclear rival India in
peace talks to join a $2.5 billion transnational natural gas pipeline
project, in which Turkmanistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan are the
participants. REUTERS/Akbar Baloch

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