Islamabad, June 22 (IANS) Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Tuesday his country is not bound by US laws in regard to its gas deal with Iran.
Pakistan will follow the international laws and not US restrictions, Xinhua quoted Gilani as saying.
US special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke Sunday warned Islamabad against the deal intended to bring Iranian gas to Pakistan.
Holbrooke said the US senate is working on a law that could affect the Iran-Pakistan gas deal. ‘We warn Pakistan to wait for the upcoming US law against Iran.’
Gilani said if the UN imposed restrictions on Iran, then Pakistan as a member of the UN would respect those curbs.
Pakistan and Iran signed a $7.5-billion gas deal in Tehran June 13 to start supplying Iranian gas from mid-2014. Iran would export over 21 million cubic metres of gas daily to Pakistan.
