Iron Lady? Rust in peace’
Over a week after her death, Margaret Thatcher continues to divide Britain much as she did during her 12 years in power. Against a backdrop of praise in Parliament, and…
Is Pakistan sinking?
The question of Pakistan’s viability as a state is at least as old as the country itself. Recently a sobering article written by a former American ambassador to Pakistan has…
‘Power tariff hike’
Please refer to your editorial on the above subject (April 3) which covers the difficult subject of Power Tariff evaluation. Your quoted costs of power production do not seem to…
Biogas potential in Pakistan
For the last five years, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources (MPNR) has been trying to implement a LNG project of a rather small capacity of 400 Billion Cubic Feet…
‘Selling’ idea of conservation to general public
'We never know the worth of water till the well is dry,' so goes an old saying. These days, the saying can be rephrased to read as, 'we never know…
Power tariffs: role of competition and transparency – II
Solar PV generation tariff: We should have an appetite for solar PV of around 100 MW at the prevailing PV prices, which compares with a corresponding figure of 1000 MW…
Gas crisis
Pakistan produces around 4 bcf per day (bcfd) natural gas out of which 3.2 bcfd is available to the two Gas Utility companies viz SSGC and SNGPL. The balance is…
No light on the horizon
Ask any resident of Punjab what he or she wants from these elections, and the unequivocal answer will be electricity. Over the last five years, Punjab has, in its own…
Back and forth
Governance standards of the outgoing government are still under discussion, perhaps also vital to guide the voters in the coming general elections. While analysing their policies one notices some good…
Everything’s almost free in Spain’s parallel barter economy
It can be argued that extra-judicial interventions first by Ghulam Mohammad as Governor General in 1951 and later by military regimes and disregard of the Constitution - facilitated by either…
