Pakistani Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Abdul Basit, said in Islamabad on Sunday that there is absolutely no pressure on his country by the US to cancel the gas pipeline deal with Iran. Talking to IRNA, he claimed that no country in the world whether Muslim or non-Muslim could ask Pakistan to cancel the project.

Abdul Basit said “Iran is our brotherly Muslim neighbor, so how could we cancel the deal knowing its importance for us?”
Pakistan media earlier had reported that the United States and a certain unnamed Muslim country – believed to be Saudi Arabia -are exerting immense pressure on Pakistan to cancel the recently- signed gas deal with Iran. The reports said some US officials spent almost half the day in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources to discuss the Iran deal.
Talking to ‘The News’ daily, Adviser on Petroleum, Dr Asim Hussain refused to offer any comment on the identity of the two countries but admitted “tremendous pressure on canceling the deal