The Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower Project was first conceived in 1989. Since then it has been victim to financial woes and corruption in the awarding of contracts. Last year, Nawaz Sharif finally decided the project had to be operational by the end of 2015 and completed a year after that. To that end he secured $448 million of funding from China’s Import-Export Bank. This money was badly needed as Chinese contractors had threatened to stop working because…