Musharraf: US could pay Pakistan to not do oil deal w/ Iran

[rainbow4321]

Pay Pakistan?? More likely, chimp will blow up Iran **and** the pipelines...


http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=132439

Pakistan will not bow to pressure from the US to abandon its planned pipeline deal with Iran, President Gen Pervez Musharraf, the country’s president said.

In an interview with the Financial Times, Mr. Musharraf said Pakistan needed the natural gas for its economic development and no country had the right to tell it not to proceed with the project. However, he held out the possibility that the US could pay Pakistan not to go ahead with the deal.

The Pakistani president condemned the recent US air strike in northern Pakistan which killed 18 people, including civilians as well as suspected al-Qaeda terrorists. He told the US government that there must be no more air strikes in Pakistani territory. "It has been very clearly told to the US we do not want anybody to take such actions within the borders of Pakistan," Musharraf said.

The Pakistani president said the gas pipeline was central to his country’s economic strategy. "Our industrial growth, foreign direct investment, depends on availability of energy," he said. "We are proceeding with the pipeline. It is in our economic interest," he said. "If somebody wants to stop us they should compensate us. But at the moment we are going ahead."

[ugarte]

1. Won't be the US. We're broke...nt