Pakistan needs energy more than anything else. These new reactors provide clean, renewable & cheap electricity. We are building numerous dams, investing in solar and wind farms, taking short term measures to bring up fossil fuel powered rental power plants, while in parallel, developing Thar coal reserves and installing units that can use this abundant source of coal to generate power.
Despite all these simultaneous projects, we are still a nation hungry from more electricity due to our population growth rate, which stands at about 1.6%/year (Adding more people than the population of New Zealand in less than 2 years) and the upward mobility of our masses which is increasing per capita energy consumption.
In the future, as we face a water shortage - along with much of the rest of the world - we will need electricity for desalination, extracting water from deeper wells and for powering more efficient water distribution infrastructure in our agricultural sector. We have a thoroughly legitimate claim to energy technology and nuclear power.
These reactors are essential for Pakistan, and any external interference in these projects is unwelcome, illogical and devoid of legitimacy.
America is objecting on this deal is not because China be able to earn some bucks they will not, but how China be able to place IAEA safeguards NTP checks and regulations on Pakistan. The legitimacy and recognition Pakistan seeking with any nuclear deal like India is not authentic until unless IAEA/NSG not giving waiver to Pakistan (lobbied by China).
This has become an issue of prestige for Pakistan since India was able convince USA for that nuclear deal.
Few months back i saw an old Indo-pak debate on a channel where ex pak general was out crying like a nipper for Indo-US nuclear deal. Interestingly he was saying in urdu (envy expression) that now Indian can make as many nukes she can, what to us. The video was a good observation for anyone to see how Pakistan has gone burnt for that deal and what they think primarily about such nuclear deals.
Hypocrisy of China is now evident who was hell bent on sabotaging our deal when all the stats were in favour of India who further unilateral declared not to test nuclear bombs again and convinced USA parliament for non proliferation.
What Pakistan has done so far convincing world is nothing but Dodgy statements.
Why it should be a big no no no..
1. Any military think tank even with half a brain can see how Pakistan/is has lost its conventional edge over India and now increasing its nuclear stock pile and boasting idiotically(from Generals, ministers to netizens) about its nuclear bomb.
2. Any military expert can tell how China has done horizontal and parallel proliferation running many extra miles for Pakistan with no genuine explanation.
3.How AQ Khan has made many pissed off in west is well documented.
4. Why Pakistan started its nuclear program is another reason for the same which now has found another excuse of clean energy.
5.Recently i read a thread title here with a laughing cartoon on it that Pakistan has more than 100 Nukes. So if two reactors can yield 100 nuke then 3 more will be able to yield 125 more for a nation who is at the verge of war with its heavy weight conventional rival India.
6.Pakistan's offencive posture towards 1/7 of the humanity living in India, lack of tactical nukes but WMD to deter population only, poor read of how many nukes they need and the numbers are growing.
7.Furthermore a challenge is bestowed upon Pakistanis to prove that nuclear energy investments are only feasible salvation to Power shortage in Pakistan. Prove it with stats or keep out this authoritarian blah blah from the thread.
Let me help, What are Pakistan's carbon emissions per capita?. Only ~3% of nuclear energy is generated in Pakistan by nuclear reactors rest is generated by other conventional means. So where is the balance? How much more energy will be generated and how many bombs will be made in next 25 years by nuclear resources in Pakistan is the question of the day.