Pakistani officials said they’re building a natural gas pipeline that could stretch to Iran with anticipation of financial support from the Chinese government. Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled in Islamabad in late April. A report published Wednesday by the Wall Street Journal says the Chinese leader will offer support to a project first discussed in the 1990s as the so-called Peace Pipeline. “We’re building it,” Pakistani Petroleum Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi told the newspaper. “The process has started.” The Journal reports as much as 85 percent of the $1.5 billion project could be financed through Chinese loans. Iranian energy officials, meanwhile, are in Beijing discussing bilateral energy ties. For Pakistan, an Iranian gas pipeline, would […]