Politics

40-50K Pakistani doctors. 150-200K engineers. 80-120K IT professionals. The full breakdown of the 400-500K skilled diaspora Pakistan has scattered abroad.

Asad Baig

May 46 min

Kafala is the sponsorship-based labour system in the Gulf. 2.6 million Pakistanis live under it in Saudi Arabia alone. Why HRW calls it modern slavery.

Asad Baig

May 47 min

Pakistan loses 80 percent of its trained doctors within five years of graduation. The state subsidises the training; foreign hospitals collect the doctor.

Asad Baig

May 47 min

Pakistan repatriates around 25,000 bodies a year from the Gulf alone. Where the number comes from, what it means, and why most are recorded as "natural causes."

Asad Baig

May 46 min

The Dawood Story: HUBCO, Engro, and the Thar Coal Plants Pakistan's largest private power empire, the family that runs it, and the Rs. 23.2 billion bond settlement that paid them from future Pakistani sovereign debt By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 7-min read The largest private power e...

Asad Baig

May 49 min

Who Owns HUBCO? The Dawood Group's Power Empire Pakistan's first major IPP, who controls it today, and what it collects from the Pakistani consumer By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 4-min read The short answer HUBCO, Pakistan's first major independent power producer, is controlled by the...

Asad Baig

May 45 min

Why Does a Fugitive's Power Plant Still Get Paid by the Pakistani State? The Suleman Shehbaz, Chiniot Power Limited story explained, plus what it tells us about how the IPP system actually treats its insiders By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 7-min read The question worth asking out loud...

Asad Baig

May 210 min

The CPEC Power Contracts: Terms, Costs, and Why They Are Worse Than 1994 Twenty-one Chinese state-owned plants, 6,000 megawatts, returns of 27 to 34 percent in dollars, and contracts that cannot be renegotiated. The CPEC story explained. By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 9-min read Why C...

Asad Baig

May 212 min

Why Were the 1994 IPP Contracts Signed in US Dollars? The single decision in 1994 that has multiplied your electricity bill nine-fold purely from currency depreciation By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 5-min read The simple answer The 1994 Power Policy contracts were denominated in US do...

Asad Baig

May 26 min

What "Friendly Country" Buried the 2020 Power Sector Inquiry Report? The phone call that reversed Pakistan's biggest accountability moment in twenty-five years, and the country that almost certainly made it By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 5-min read The question worth answeri...

Asad Baig

May 28 min

The 2002 and 2006 Repeats: How Each Government Made Pakistan's Electricity Crisis Worse After 1994 came 2002. After 2002 came 2006. Each government promised reform. Each delivered the same disease in different packaging. By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 8-min read Why these two years al...

Asad Baig

May 211 min

List of CPEC Coal Power Plants in Pakistan, with Owners and Capacity Every CPEC coal-fired power plant in Pakistan, what it produces, who owns it, and what it costs the Pakistani consumer By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 5-min read What this article is A reference list of the CPEC coal-...

Asad Baig

May 27 min