The Tapi dream
An advertisement being aired these days informs us that the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (Tapi) gas pipeline will, among other things, last for at least 500 years. Please. The eggs are yet to hatch and here we are being told that the pipeline will last well into half a millennium.
If we are able to complete even half of the 800 kilometres of the pipeline that will pass through our territory in the given timeframe we would have achieved the impossible (for us) – leave alone complete the whole of it. Given our ‘brilliant’ track record of meeting deadlines of mega projects – the never to be completed new Islamabad International Airport being a case in point – do we not know our worth? So why talk about things lasting for centuries when we are not even able to get things going – leave alone complete them.
Farid Nawaz
Islamabad
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