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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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-...
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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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