Khattak to inaugurate 40.8 MW Koto Hydro Dam in Dir today

[Jazzbot]

This is correct. Main thing with hydros is the amount of money needed to build them per MW,
Plus they happen to be remote, so cost per MW for moving this electricity to main load centers.

If you do not consider these two cost factors, then such projects will remain toy things only useful for helping nearby village but at great cost and no contribution to national grid.

As per @Norwegian (from another thread):

" Our entire nation of Norway runs on 100's of small hydel projects. We do not have one or two mega dams, rather for a population of just 5 million, we have hundreds of dams spread across the country.. "

 

[SBD-3]

Koto ek aur mara hua murda dubara ukhara ja raha hay
Five hydropower projects for Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa - thenews.com.pk

RE-Invitation of bids.