Talks over TAPI pipeline gather steam with Taliban at the helm

Target is to take a share of natural gas to 15% in India's energy mix

With the Taliban spokespersons in Afghanistan talking favourably on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline, expectations of it coming closer to India have grown. The TAPI pipeline is among the three transnational pipelines that have been on the drawing board for long. 

These can assist in India's quest for a gas-based economy, even though transnational pipelines are difficult to plan and harder to implement.

“The TAPI project had regained steam a few years ago, but there has been an eerie silence from India on this front lately. It seems the government wants to see if the Taliban are really serious about this