Pakistan to Produce Natural Gas – By Burning Underground Coal

With 2011 behind us consider the miserable plight of the average Pakistani electricity consumer.   With about 50 per cent less electricity generation capability than the actual demand, Pakistan’s National Grid is facing more than a 5,000-megawatt...

Pakistani Energy Sector About to Collapse?

At what point does a nation’s energy infrastructure become unsustainable? According to Pakistani Intezar Mehdi, corporate lawyer and energy expert, the nation is on the precipice. MEhdi, a corporate lawyer, working with foreign investors in local power...

Girls in Pakistan Fight for the Right to Education

Armed with only a slightly used copy book sent by her aunt from Peshawar, the capital of the northwestern Khyber Pakhtoomkhw’a province, Azeera Gul, 12, is fighting for the rights of girls to an education.

Cheerless Eid for Pakistan’s Sindh Flood Survivors

Flood survivors across Pakistan’s Sindh province say they have received very little help, even as disease begins to spread, and people who have lost crops, livestock and homes wonder how they are to survive.

Children Paying High Price for Blasts in Pakistan

Since February 2010, Raees Khan, 15, has not been to school. Instead, he helps take care of his father, who lost a leg and suffered back injuries in a bomb blast that killed 117 people at a Peshawar bazaar in October 2009, and is no longer able to work...

Sindh Flood Victims Lack Shelter As Pakistan’s Winter Approaches

Temperatures in the southern Pakistani province of Sindh’s Badin District, the area worst affected by floods which began in August, are still warm, though tens of thousands of people without adequate shelter are beginning to feel chilly at night.

Iran to Ship Natural Gas to China Across Pakistan

Senior Iranian Oil Ministry officials have announced that they have reached agreement with the Pakistani government about shipping Iranian natural gas across Pakistan via pipelines to China.

Construction Begins in Pakistan on the World’s Highest Dam

Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has inaugurated construction of the country’s Diamer-Bhasha dam, the world’s highest, calling it the “lifeline” of Pakistan.

Pakistan IDPs Reluctant to Return

Nearly four years ago as skirmishes between troops and Taliban militants drove thousands out of the North Waziristan (NW) Agency on the Pakistan-Afghan border, Kalim Ullah, 40, was among those who left.