You have no idea what a booming industrial base looks like. When your industry is booming, you not only fulfill internal demand, but your products are seen in international markets.
In 2018, the only products of Pakistan seen on the floors of markets were shan, national and mehran masala, rice, footballs, mangoes, some surgical items and kinnow. That's why you were importing most of your consumption and making a huge trade loss.
On the other hand, compare the situation with India or Bangladesh, you see a lot of made in India products. In 2018, crockery, textile, many different kinds of vegetables and fruits, milk products, small kitchen appliances, pharmaceutical products, chemicals, other small electronics items. The outsourced services sector of India doesn't only depend on call centers, they have over 100 billion dollar IT exports. There are made in India Suzuki cars available in UAE. There are low cost motorbikes available in gulf. When India was penetrating in these sectors, you guys were voting for crooks who made huge properties abroad and left you as orphans in Pakistan after making a deal in return of supporting extension of an army chief.
Forget about industry, you have no idea what previous governments have done to your national assets such as PIA, Pakistan Machine Tool Factory, Pakistan Steels etc.
If Corona had struck in 2017 in Mian Saabs daur, you might have been seeing much worst.
That's why, post Corona scenario of countries like India and Bangladesh is not that dark. The industries that India worked on since their challenging times in early 1990s are reviving. The only problem with them is that they are supporting an extremist which may bring down india's hard earned progress of three decades.
Three decades of correction took India to another level, three decades (out of which two belong to democratic crooks) took you to the bottom. It's not a game of 2-3 years, it takes 2-3 decades to increase per capita by 40%. China on the other hand is an entirely different planet, where the corrupt were put in front of firing squads and look at them now, they are out of your reach. The whole subcontinent and China were at the same level a few decades ago.