Pakistan: Energy Sector Victim of Incongruous Policies

A closer look at Pakistan’ energy sector reveals that exploration and production activities have remained lackluster, refining sector suffers from underutilization of capacity and country becoming more dependent on imported POL products. This becomes all the more pinching because country has enviable success record but exploration and production activities are being adversely impacted by deteriorating law and order situation. Pakistan's GDP growth has remained subdued mainly because of lingering energy crisis. Only the Government of Pakistan and policy planners can be held responsible for this. For further details visit shkazmipk.com.