Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf (C) visits a Muslim cultural center in Moscow on May 27, 2009. Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom is keen to participate in a pipeline to carry Iranian gas to Pakistan, the Kommersant daily reported, citing company and government officials. Getty Images logo Getty Images 5 months ago

Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf (C) visits a Muslim cultural center in Moscow on May 27, 2009. Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom is keen to participate in a pipeline to carry Iranian gas to Pakistan, the Kommersant daily reported, citing company and government officials.

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  1. Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf gives a speech Friday, Oct. 2, 2009, at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S.D.
  2. Supporters of Pakistani opposition leader Nawaz Sharif who had been sacked and arrested by Pakistan's former military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf, burn an effigy of Musharraf in Karachi, Pakistan on Monday, Oct. 12, 2009.
  3. Supporters of Pakistani opposition leader Nawaz Sharif who had been sacked and arrested in 1999 by Pakistan's former military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf, burn an effigy of Musharraf in Karachi, Pakistan on Monday, Oct. 12, 2009.
  4. Supporters of former Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party burn an effigy of former president Pervez Musharraf during a protest in Karachi October 12, 2009. The PML-N observes October 12 as a black day in commemoration of Musharraf's coup against the Sharif's government in 1999. Sharif was first elected prime minister in 1990 but was sacked three years later on corruption charges. He returned to power in 1997, but was ousted in the 1999 coup by Musharraf, who brought criminal charges against him for hijacking, terrorism and attempted murder.
  5. Supporters of former Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party burn an effigy of former president Pervez Musharraf during a protest in Karachi October 12, 2009. The PML-N observes October 12 as a black day in commemoration of Musharraf's coup against the Sharif's government in 1999. Sharif was first elected prime minister in 1990 but was sacked three years later on corruption charges. He returned to power in 1997, but was ousted in the 1999 coup by Musharraf, who brought criminal charges against him for hijacking, terrorism and attempted murder.
  6. Supporters of former Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party burn an effigy of former president Pervez Musharraf during a protest in Karachi October 12, 2009. The PML-N observes October 12 as a black day in commemoration of Musharraf's coup against the Sharif's government in 1999. Sharif was first elected prime minister in 1990 but was sacked three years later on corruption charges. He returned to power in 1997, but was ousted in the 1999 coup by Musharraf, who brought criminal charges against him for hijacking, terrorism and attempted murder.
  7. Supporters of former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif�s PML-N party burn an effigy of former president Pervez Musharraf during a march in Lahore October 12, 2009. The PML-N observes October 12 as a black day in commemoration of Musharraf's coup against the PML-N government in 1999. Sharif was first elected prime minister in 1990 but was sacked three years later on corruption charges. He returned to power in 1997, but was ousted in the 1999 coup by Musharraf, who brought criminal charges against him for hijacking, terrorism and attempted murder.
  8. Supporters of former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif�s PML-N party beat an effigy of former president Pervez Musharraf with their shoes during a march in Lahore October 12, 2009. The PML-N observes October 12 as a black day in commemoration of Musharraf's coup against the PML-N government in 1999. Sharif was first elected prime minister in 1990 but was sacked three years later on corruption charges. He returned to power in 1997, but was ousted in the 1999 coup by Musharraf, who brought criminal charges against him for hijacking, terrorism and attempted murder.
  9. Gazprom Deputy Chief Executive Alexander Medvedev talks to Reuters in Moscow September 11, 2009. Europe will depend on Russia for one-third of its gas within the next decade and the financial crisis has done nothing to erode the market share of the world's number one gas producer, Medvedev said on Friday.
  10. Gazprom Deputy Chief Executive Alexander Medvedev talks to Reuters in Moscow September 11, 2009. Europe will depend on Russia for one-third of its gas within the next decade and the financial crisis has done nothing to erode the market share of the world's number one gas producer, Medvedev said on Friday.
  11. Gazprom Deputy Chief Executive Alexander Medvedev talks to Reuters in Moscow September 11, 2009. Europe will depend on Russia for one-third of its gas within the next decade and the financial crisis has done nothing to erode the market share of the world's number one gas producer, Medvedev said on Friday.
  12. Gazprom Deputy Chief Executive Alexander Medvedev talks to Reuters in Moscow September 11, 2009. Europe will depend on Russia for one-third of its gas within the next decade and the financial crisis has done nothing to erode the market share of the world's number one gas producer, Medvedev said on Friday.
  13. Alexander Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Gazprom, attends a press briefing in the 24th World Gas Conference in Buenos Aires, October 8, 2009. Medvedev said that Gazprom aims to take a 10 percent share of the U.S. natural gas market within five years.
  14. Alexander Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Gazprom, attends a press briefing at the 24th World Gas Conference in Buenos Aires, October 8, 2009. Medvedev said that Gazprom aims to take a 10 percent share of the U.S. natural gas market within five years.
  15. Alexander Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Gazprom, poses after attending a press briefing at the 24th World Gas Conference in Buenos Aires, October 8, 2009. Medvedev said that Gazprom aims to take a 10 percent share of the U.S. natural gas market within five years.
  16. FILE -- In this Nov. 2006 file photo, officials look at a model of the Gazprom's skyscraper at an exhibition in St. Petersburg, Russia. Governor of Russia's second city of St. Petersburg, Valentina Matviyenko, signed a decree Tuesday allowing the construction of a hulking skyscraper for state energy giant Gazprom in the city's czarist-era center.

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