ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said on Thursday that transnational gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to India through Afghanistan and Pakistan would start operation in five years. “As for import of gas, work on Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) has started and gas flow from the project would start in four to five years,” Premier Abbasi said while inaugurating the oil and gas conference in Islamabad. He also vowed to set up more oil refineries in the country, besides constructing oil pipelines to replace the movement of oil through trucks. He claimed that the PML-N government had delivered in terms of mitigating energy crisis in the country. “It is because of this significant initiative that power plants are running CNG sector is operating and we are exporting fertilizer and every industry is getting gas round the clock,” he said. According to the PM, signing of the contract with Qatar for import of LNG and construction of a terminal was done in a short span of time. He also claimed that the government had replaced the depleted gas reserves and domestic oil production has crossed one hundred thousand barrels per day. Published in Daily Times, November 3rd 2017.