This was the first leg of the ground-breaking ceremony, which was also attended by Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani and India’s Minister of State for External Affairs M J Akbar, according to information received here.
An Agreement on Tukrmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan power line was also signed on the occasion.
A Pakistani cultural troupe performed at the occasion along with their counterparts from partner TAPI countries.
Prime Minister Abbasi will later proceed to Herat, Afghanistan to attend the second leg of the ground-breaking ceremony.
The ambitious natural gas pipeline project entered its practical phase in Pakistan after the process of initiating front-end-engineering-and-design (FEED) route survey was formally inaugurated last year.