Summary
Pakistan and Russia signed an agreement Friday to build a gas pipeline stretching hundreds of kilometers from Karachi on the Arabian Sea to the eastern city of Lahore.
Officials said the North-South gas pipeline project would be built by Russian company RT Global Resources -- a part of Russian state corporation Rostec.
The 1,100-kilometer (680-mile) pipeline, with a capacity of 12.4 billion cubic meters (438 billion cubic feet) per year, will connect liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in Karachi with those in Lahore.
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