Private Iranian firm may lay gas pipeline in Pakistan: By Zafar Bhutta in The Express Tribune, Jan 10 ISLAMABAD: Iran has designated a ‘clean’ private company, which has not been placed under US sanctions, to take a direct contract for laying a pipeline in Pakistan under the Iran-Pakistan gas supply project for which Tehran is extending a $500 million loan. The two countries have already signed an initial agreement on the loan, but the accord…