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News ID: 153966
Publish Date : 22 September 2026 - 23:08

Report: Pakistan Set to Receive Qatari LNG After Negotiating Passage With Iran

LONDON (Dispatches) -- Pakistan is due to receive its second liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo from Qatar via the shuttered Strait of Hormuz since the brokering of the Islamabad memorandum of understanding (MoU), according to ship tracking data cited by western media. 
The arrival of the energy shipment was a result of Pakistan’s negotiation and coordination with Tehran, Bloomberg reported. 
“The tanker, which loaded LNG from Qatar’s Ras Laffan facility in late June, crossed the strait over the weekend, and is signaling that it will arrive at Pakistan’s import facility by Tuesday,” the report said.
Ras Laffan is among the sites targeted heavily by Tehran at the start of the illegal U.S.-Israeli war. The strikes had a severe impact on Qatar’s LNG export capacity.
“The passage was negotiated between government officials,” sources told Bloomberg. The Pakistani Energy Ministry did not immediately comment.
The report comes a day after Doha confirmed it was exporting only a very small amount of oil through Hormuz. 
For the most part, the strait is shut. Ships linked to Washington and its allies are barred from entry, and numerous tankers have been targeted and set ablaze in recent months. 
Some Chinese and Indian ships, as well as others, have crossed in coordination with Iranian naval forces. Tehran says ships that do not coordinate with its navy and cross the strait in violation of warnings are at risk of being targeted. 
The Strait of Hormuz has been shut since the start of Washington and Tel Aviv’s brutal and illegal war on Tehran that began in February this year.
Iran, as part of its terms in the June MoU, demands sovereignty over the strait in cooperation with Oman and without U.S. interference, but has repeatedly welcomed regional participation.
Tehran and Muscat have reached a deal on managing maritime traffic, according to multiple Iranian statements recently. 
But a planned Iranian-Omani-led summit with Arab states – aimed at reaching a final agreement on restoring traffic to the vital waterway – was postponed earlier this month due to what Oman said was a lack of “consensus.”
Tehran blamed Saudi Arabia and said the kingdom requested that the summit be postponed. 

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