Akhtar Ali, Issues in Energy Policy (Karachi: Royal Book Company, 2014), 438. (Book Review Sample)

The issue of energy has been a serious concern for the past decade. Governments did not initiate any new energy generation projects and failed to pay due attention to the widening gap between the demand and supply of energy which resulted in the current crisis. Akhtar Ali‘s book Issues in Energy Policy is an effort to comprehend the energy crisis in all of its possible perspectives. The book is divided into seven broad sections. The author starts with the fundamental issues related to energy production, planning and management in Pakistan. He blames lack of knowledge in the bureaucracy, corruption, the greed of project builders and indifference of the politicians for the flawed planning of this vital sector. A policy maker and a functionary must integrate himself with the stake-holders intellectually, but insulate himself from stake-holders‘ vested interests socially (p.32). Akhtar Ali believes in developing indigenous sources of energy to overcome the crisis. source..