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Glasgow agreement and Pakistan—I

Glasgow Climate Conference has ended with a renewed commitment of 200 nations to climate change goals amid skepticism and criticism by activists of doing too little. The promises of assisting…

North-South pipeline: some proposals

A new gas transmission pipeline to transmit imported RLNG from Port Qasim to Lahore is under active discussion; it is even implementation for the last six months. The project was…

A conducive ‘terf’ for manufacturing

Pakistan is prematurely transitioning from agriculture to services economy by skipping a strong manufacturing base. With world’s fifth-largest population, such model is simply not sustainable. Government policies, especially, in the…

Provincial gas issues

The Sindh energy minister has been raising the issue of gas supply to Sindh and loadshedding. He says Sindh produces more gas than it consumes, and that Sindh’s needs should…

Rewiring Budget 2022

Budgets intuitively have to be about ideas. Ideas shaping expectations of economic agents and giving them real hope about a better future. Ideas nurturing economic growth. Ideas detailing a fiscal…

The Case For Energy Cooperatives

The case for energy cooperatives

The cooperative movement was founded when people felt that they were not getting a fair deal in terms of products’ or services’ availability or pricing. Long before communism, in 1761,…

Solving the energy conundrum via LNG

Recently while flipping through the archives section of a newspaper, I came across a 1968 print advertisement of the then Karachi Gas Company. The body copy of the ad confidently…

Production And Priority

Production and priority

Every winter, there is gas shortage and every winter Sindh says that it produces more gas and it should get its due share. The scarcity, however, is equal throughout the…

GIDC: Controversy And Solution

GIDC: controversy and solution

Perhaps the government underestimated the potential of the controversy the GIDC carried. While the government withdrew the GIDC ordinance within days of its promulgation, the hurried manner in which it…