Dalit
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Even if we have corrupt people, as long as they don’t kill the golden goose and keep electricity and food prices low and allow a level field for FDI to come in and exports to grow, we can still manage. We will always have corrupt people, but there needs to be limits on what they can touch and divert. It I agree, Subsidies to unproductive enterprises need to end. Money should go to what will make us money for the long term, education and better healthcare and cheap electricity.
It’s the most realistic way.
At least they are seeing the light and gifting to domestic coal.
Just wait for the world to chastise Pakistan for going for coal, even though we make only 25% of global coal emissions per capita. This is why we need to move fast and get technology to build these mega plants completely in house, so we can never be cut off and our plants to re-industrialize can not be stopped.
Also, they want to lower our birth rate (which we need to grow on track to attract investors for decades to come and counter balance Indian plans for hegemony), but despite the burden with more electricity and dams we can grow our arable land by 55% which is approximately how much our population is expected to grow by 2050. At the same time we just need to adopt modern agriculture technologies to grow our crop yields by 3-5x, giving us more than enough food for the people and money from value added products made from those crops through exports.
But for all this we need cheap cheap electricity.
From 7:50-9:00 (built to the highest emissions standards in the US, Europe/Germany and Japan)
Also according to this video, these plants require a lot of water. Hopefully this will galvanize the need to manage our water supply better, along with the need to control floods , through the buildings of the Pakistani flood control system. In this way a canal can be built along the coast (where industry should be build; near ports and away from entrenched political figures in new industrial cities like gwadar) and coal plants can be built on the coast. Hub is already located on the coast, it should expanded and and the gird extend to Gwadar so we can completely free of dependence on Iran
Btw, once the technology is acquired and one mega plant is built and operational, it can be a very visible project that could attract FDI from overseas Pakistanis looking to invest in domestic power plants and help the country for a modest profit on a BOT model (still cheaper then imported oil prices), so eventually the plant will be owned by the state and the electricity costs can be brought down even further. In this way, getting these plants online can happen faster and we can move away from imported oil and gas. With cheap electricity we can also switch to electric cars, motorcycles and rickshaws, perhaps even making them in Pakistan. Creating another industry that can export products to the world.
If we build these plants on the coast we can build a 300 mile electricity (for about $2.5 Billion) electric to Oman and even sell to the GCC. Allowing investors to recoup invest ASAP if the GCC agrees to the deal. Perhaps we can arrange for a GCC-Pakistan-India oil/gas pipeline so India would buy less oil from Iran, and Pakistan could ditch the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline. (India’s gonna buy oil and gas from the GCC, might as well make money off of it, and make it easier to attract a FDI for a new refinery)
Energy independence makes a huge difference in how a country’s prospects
COAL, BEAUTIFUL COAL
You cannot make any progress with Sharif and Zardari clan in power. This is an old experiment that has failed countless times.
Pakistan is most likely heading towards economic collapse. A few loans here and there won't solve the problem.
Energy can wait. Priority is Pakistani economy.
