Pakistan and Industrial Traders Associations Front (PIAF) has urged the government to utilise coal to generate electricity, as the energy situation is worsening with every passing day thus pushing the economy to the wall.
While speaking at a meeting of a group of businessmen here on Wednesday, the PIAF Chairman Sohail Lashari said that the business community is unable to understand that why the government is not initiating coal based power projects when the country owns trillion dollar worth of coal reserves that are enough to produce 100,000 megawatts of electricity for 100 years.
He said that Pakistan is the most resourceful country in the community of developing states but the electricity is the severest in comparison to other nations. He said that Africa, Poland, India and China are producing huge quantity of electricity by coal but Pakistan despite having huge resources is producing only 1 percent electricity through coal means.