Mr. Young economist. Here's something for you. The base change for the Indian economy did not change the size of the economy. What changed was the growth rates in the new series.
As far as Pakistan is concerned even if the base change increases your gdp size by 100-150 bn-nothing changes. You are still a small economy.
Of course it changes things. The GDP per capita will change significantly and actually leapfrog bharat. A "small economy" will start to look not so small soon after.
Remember power availability does not take an economy to 10% growth rates. It's just one of the many bottlenecks but won't take you too far. There are many many other factors that make a nation competitive.
Of course power availability is not enough. CPEC developments alone are expected to add 2.5% points to the economic growth. Nevermind the fact that with the additional power, motorways, better railways, the 8-9% growth is within the realm of possibilities.
And by the way your existing grid can't even handle existing power capacities with blackouts in your biggest cities. So how is it going to handle all the extra power coming in from cpec projects.
Our power generation capacity is around 12000 MW while demand is 17000 MW.
And who will pay for it with all the circular debt floating around. People unwilling and unable to pay at current tariffs-who pays for all the new surplus power(assuming your grid won't collapse with all that power).
And why would that problem be effecting the new energy projects, which will be operated by other groups?
Says it all though that you're hoping for the power grid to collapse, LOL.
Now you will tell me I don't know anything about cpec - that half the world's trade will pass through gawadar (that option was always available through Karachi port).
You can ask the Chinese why they didn't use Karachi port and now want to use Gwadar. Clearly they know something you don't.
You will also tell me that Pakistan will suddenly become a manufacturing power house etc etc. I would say it's not even worth a decent argument. I would let you be happy with your assumptions and I (along with rest of world) be happy with our assumptions. We will find out soon enough.
Enjoy!
It's interesting that you lost bharatis often group yourself with the "rest of the world", suggesting that the rest of the world agrees with you or something along those lines. Read up what the "rest of the world" is saying about CPEC. There are literally conferences being held about CPEC at universities, the foreign media has never been as positive about Pakistan's economy before. That's the rest of the world for you.
There are of course usual suspects, playing the usual "debt" card and the rest of the tired old debunked arguments.