Thar coal: reality & myth
At a distance of 410-km from Karachi in the Tharparkar District of Sindh and in the wilderness of Thar desert is located the Thar coalfield, the coal deposits of which…
Thar coal project – on the verge of realisation
Physical work ongoing since May 2014. With EPC Contractor finalised, project moving swiftly towards Financial Close. At optimum mine capacity of 4,000MW, Thar coal can yield a power tariff of…
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Learning from the Turks
In this age of armed conflicts and global terrorism, threats and insecurity, perhaps there is one country where you land with a dark green passport and you are treated with…
An Arab spring in Turkey?
This time last year we finally had our dream of visiting Turkey fulfilled. We spent a rare, serene week in Istanbul or Constantinople as it was once known. Our hotel…
Spotlight: Party leaders not parties are power centres – I
es that is true! In Pakistan today it is not the party which calls the shots in respect of policies, campaigns, alliances and so forth but the all powerful party…
Turkey’s Erdogan decade
Not long ago, Turkey was a security state where the establishment controlled policy through a shadow government. A clandestine network of military officers and their civilian proxies exercised utmost ‘legitimacy’…
