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How Pakistan Is Crowdfunding an Energy Revolution
A grassroots push offers a model that could transform similar fast-growing, energy-poor countries.
Energy has been a brake on Pakistan’s development since its independence in 1947, thanks to meager domestic sources of power.
Photographer: Bloomberg/BloombergSometimes, the most tragic events can bring forth goodness. That’s the hope of Najam Fasihi, 47, a Miami-raised surgeon at Virginia Hospital Center in the suburbs of Washington, DC.
On a 2023 trip to visit relatives in northern Pakistan, disaster struck. Driving along the Karakoram Highway through the foothills of the Himalayas, a landslide hit one of their vehicles, killing his sister-in-law instantly. Her six-year-old daughter, who had been sitting in her lap, was left with a serious head injury.