Musharraf supports Iran gas pipeline

Pakistan's President said he supports building a pipeline that would carry gas from Iran to Pakistan and India.

Pakistan's leader said on Monday he supports building a pipeline that would carry gas from Iran to Pakistan and India -- a project the US has opposed.

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Pakistan needs more gas because the nation's economy has become stronger in the past two years, President Gen Pervez Musharraf told a visiting group of journalists from the US and Asia.

"Pakistan wants gas. Iran wants to sell it. What is the problem?" Musharraf said.