Fighting climate change
One of the most imminent threats currently faced by the world is a disruption in the ecosystem due to climate change and global warming. Millions of people around the world…
Energy security and the nuclear program
The month of May marks the 23rd anniversary of nuclear weapon tests in South Asia. Since then, the discourse on non-military aspect of nuclear technology and its enormous potential of…
How to control circular debt
It was recently reported that the PM has asked the Ministry of Finance and the Power Division to reduce circular debt without increasing the tariff, and handle the capacity charges.…
Pepco revival: more to be done
The Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) has been revised under a legal arrangement of being a “Managing Agent”. The role of Pepco, briefly speaking, is to monitor and coordinate the…
Important memories
Ghulam Ishaq Khan was one of the most patriotic, competent, honest and efficient Pakistanis I know. He was born on January 20, 1915 in Bannu and died on October 27,…
Understated expenditure projections
A first look at the Federal expenditure budget for 2017-2018 reveals that it has all the right ingredients. First, overall expenditure has been fixed at a level which, given the…
Restructuring energy
K-Electric was privatized in a rush in 2005 to a motley crowd of invisible investors. The company -- KESC then -- was, indeed, in deep trouble suffering from excessive local…
Lest you forget
At Kahuta, we were not only a team of colleagues, but all part of one family. We were all working towards one goal: to make nuclear weapons (and later, a…
What our future holds
On December 21, the PM House was opened to the public and a formal announcement was made at a special function, at which the prime minister was the chief guest,…
Administration a la jungle
The government has been seen to take haphazard actions, causing it to already lose credibility with the people. Some of these strange decisions are forcing people to start questioning the…
