Dear Editor,
This is apropos of article ‘Revisiting the energy mix’. Shaukat Tarin is right in saying that government should diversify the supply base of energy sector. Especially it should focus on developing Thar coal reserves. Balochistan’s wind corridor option is also an important and a permanent solution for this problem without utilising our natural resources. But apart from these solutions the former finance minister proposes the creation of an autonomous energy ministry, which I do not agree. Pakistan is a country where we have 96 ministers for a population of 18 million as compared to India which has 32 ministers for a population, almost 7 times larger than Pakistan. The solution is not to create new departments but to eradicate the ongoing corruption and inefficiency of already existing departments.
Tanzeel Qamar
Islamabad