Hi,
Thank you---. This is so true---so many resources but so much poverty in baluchistan---it is just like taking all the revenue generated by Karachi and giving it to Islamabad---.
Baluchistan just cannot be left to stay poverty stricken and lack of education.
If pakistan wants to develop and be a stable and moving forward nation---Baluchistan has to be made a progressive state---.
I feel like arguing with you on this.
The resources you are on about and many Baloch cry rivers about, are not lying on the ground and need huge investment to make them useful in the first place.
Gas is dug from 6 miles underneath and that after 70% failed drillings. 7 out 10 gas wells yield no commercially viable gas and cost the same as the other 3 commercially viable gas wells. So the cost of the 7 failed drilling expeditions (common success/failure ratio across the industry) is to be recovered from the 3 successful drillings.
Also to use the gas an extensive gas pumping, storage and pipeline network is needed, that costs a lot and those costs also need to be recovered from the gas revenue.
Then the most important component, you need paying customers to earn gas revenue ? Or you can't earn anything?
There's the crux of Balochistan problem.
They think that gas is sitting on the ground and needs nothing else to be commercially profitable.
And all of them want free and unlimited gas.
So how will the state or any private company cover the gas exploration costs a s earn any money when every Baloch just wants free gas and on top of that they basically want every Punjabi ( the most bill paying province of Pakistan) or Karachi wala to pay gas bills directly to Baloch feudal lords.
The state does give them gas royalty which is about 17% of all gas earnings.
But that money disappears and never gets spent on Baloch people.