TO GO WITH Pakistan-China-energy-environment-pollution-coal, FOCUS by Ashraf Khan and Joris Fioriti
TOPSHOT - This picture taken on May 23, 2018 shows trucks transporting soil in an open-pit coal mining site at Islamkot in the desert in the Tharparkar district of Pakistan's southern Sindh province. - In Pakistan's desolate Thar desert, the roar of trucks is constant at a massive Chinese-backed coal power project the government sees as an answer to chronic energy shortages, but which activists warn is an environmental disaster. (Photo by Rizwan TABASSUM / AFP) / TO GO WITH Pakistan-China-energy-environment-pollution-coal, FOCUS by Ashraf Khan and Joris Fioriti