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Our mining sector
OUR potential mineral wealth makes headlines in the media from time to time — from copper in Saindak, coal in Thar, and gold and copper in Reko Diq to iron and gold in Chiniot and gold in Attock. The actual yearly output of extracted minerals and their contribution to our GDP, however, seldom surfaces in the news as there’s nothing out of the ordinary in that data. The share of the mining and quarrying sector has stayed mostly between two to three per cent of GDP for the last 25 years. The la...
27 Feb, 04:09 — 27 Feb, 04:09
