Please note there are many branches of this Thar Coal Project tree.

1. Our govt. has never legislated a fromal workout policy for its conservation, the reports published so far are by economists and private bodies.

2. Petrol mafia is silently playing its role behind the scene and has put govt. machinery on its toes.

3. Thar coal project has been twice rebuffed and chinese engineers have been made to flew away from extraction field by local bodies involved. As they have never been taken on baord.

4. Problem of regionalism has never been realised as a real source of problem for turning out coal into a new big energy source.

5. Power politics in pakistan have worsen the situation further, every party trying to take the lead in starting such projects always resulted in criticism and lack of development. It happened with KalaBagh Dam and secondly with COAL energy fields productions.

6. Poor managemnt of minerals extraction departments.

7. Lastly the fault lies on the shoulder or very individual due to unawareness, its the common masses that can influence govt. to a great extent but due to our lack of awareness the situation remain grim and we are suffereing. I believe if 17 crore populace vote for coal project then any mafia is just a grain of sand against the public storm.

Cheers. =)

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Shiraz A.K
Assistant Commissioner (IRS)