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Who Owns Nishat Power? Inside the Mansha Group The Mansha family's four power plants, what they collect, and the path from textile mills to first place on Pakistan's wealthiest list By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 4-min read The short answer Nishat Power, Lalpir Power, Pakgen Power, an...
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The Mansha Empire: From the MCB Bank Sale to Lalpir Power How a textile family ranked fifteenth richest in 1970 became Pakistan's wealthiest dynasty by 1993, and what their four power plants collect every year from the Pakistani consumer By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 8-min read The s...
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Who Is Muhammad Ali, the Man Behind the 2020 Power Sector Inquiry? A profile of the former SECP chairman who led the most thorough investigation of Pakistani IPP corruption ever assembled, and the report he submitted that nobody in power was willing to act on By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · App...
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The Oursun Solar Tariff Scandal: 132 Cents per Unit, Explained A solar plant approved at 33 times the international rate, while its owner served on Pakistani government energy advisory positions By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 4-min read The number While the global price for solar elec...
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Nadeem Babar: The Architect Inside, and the Oursun Solar Tariff How a former Wall Street banker who founded Orient Power was appointed by Imran Khan to reform the very system he had built, and what the Oursun Solar tariff at 132 cents per unit reveals about the conflict of interest By Asad Baig · La...
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The 2020 Inquiry Report That Was Buried: What It Said and Who Stopped It The most thorough documentation of Pakistani IPP corruption ever assembled, suppressed within weeks of completion. What was inside, who was named, and the phone call that buried it. By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx....
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The 1994 Power Policy: How One Year Locked Pakistan Into Thirty The decisions made in a single year that defined Pakistan's electricity sector for a generation By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 9-min read Why this one year matters Every dysfunctional system has a moment of origin. A spec...
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The 2018 NAB List: 71 Politicians and Bureaucrats With Power Sector Links Five former prime ministers, multiple chief ministers, and almost zero convictions. What the NAB list tells us about Pakistani accountability. By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 4-min read What the list was In Octob...
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Why Did Pakistan's Textile Industry Collapse While Bangladesh's Grew? The same cotton, the same workers, the same skill. The difference was the price of electricity. By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 5-min read The numbers that should haunt every Pakistani In the year 2000, Pakistan and...
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The Manchester That Closed Down: Faisalabad's Textile Collapse A city that built three generations of textile workers, watching its factories sit silent because of decisions made in 1994 by people who never visited By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 5-min read What Faisalabad used to be F...
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Who Is Mian Muhammad Mansha? Pakistan's Wealthiest Man Profiled A short profile of the textile-family-turned-banking-cement-power magnate, drawn from public records By Asad Baig · Lahore · April 2026 · Approx. 4-min read The basic facts Mian Muhammad Mansha was born in Lahore in 1947. He is consist...
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