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Experts urge govt to explore metallurgical coal potential

Pakistan Published 19 October 2026, 21:49 · archived 19 Oct 2026

Experts have urged the government to develop a strategy to tap into the growing global demand for metallurgical coal, a key raw material used in steelmaking. They believe generating suitable indigenous metallurgical coal resources may play an important role in scaling down dependence on imported raw materials, saving foreign exchange and bolstering up the local steel industry in the country. Speaking to Business Recorder, Dr Sultan Ahmed Khoso, expert in mining and metallurgical engineering, said Pakistan has not undertaken sufficiently serious work on metallurgical coal because coal policy ha...

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