Sayfullah
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Afghani being so strong is lowkey a curse for Afghanistan.
It’s was artificially kept stable by aid money and afghan exports are very low so a strong currency just makes afghan goods more expensive and unattractive to buy. Pakistani rupee has more demand and is more useful then Afghani, even afghan businessmen know this so they trade in rupees and except rupees.
Afghanistan gets 70% of its electricity from Uzbekistan. I wonder if we can start exporting electricity to Afghanistan because wouldn’t that help us pay capacity payments and lower curricular debt? We can sell our expensive electricity to Afghanistan and use Afghan coal in our power plants since afghan coal is higher quality the one our power plants use but half the price. With the revenue we earn we can use that to end loadshedding in Pakistan.Kid, I do not know why you are jumping in so aggressively, but I would suggest you take a step back, read up on things, then come back and indulge in a conversation.
As of today, Pakistan has enough installed capacity to meet the demand.
We aren't creating electricity because:
1- The energy costs are way too high
2- We want to keep the import bill (and consequently trade deficit) low because we do not have enough dollars
We literally do not have enough money to buy fuel for the power plants we have. I don't know if you are one of those N trolls we have been infested with lately, so I will give you the benefit of doubt, but if you are, then your own dear Shahid Khaqan has said as such...to reduce 1 hour of loadshedding we need $125 million a month extra. That's the amount we save with 1 hour. Now you do the math.
I am not going to get into the WHY we have such power plants right now, but PTI does not figure into this equation from anywhere.
Had N been more focussed on doing something itself rather than on PTI with 10 press conferences a day, things might have been better.