Pakistan is put mildly an effing disaster of such magnitude one wonders if even cousin marriages and generations of amplified stupidity gene can alone cause this mess. Its almost like Pakistan puts its best minds to screw up the country.
Take an example -
Pakistan's coal is low quality - high on pollutants less thermal output i.e. not suited for power generation.
Pakistan's gas production is plagued by poor infra, lack of local talent - again dependent on imports to meet needs
Oil - negligible output
So what does Pakistan do? It builds 64 power plants running on fossil fuels. 2 more are in construction. Of these ONLY 2 run on Thar coal alone, 2 are mixed import/thar coal. Other 60 run on Fuel Oil, Gas, Coal - all imported.
On its share on Indus rivers, Pakistan has 33 Hydro plants with an installed capacity of 10000 MW ( half of these plants are over 40 years old). Of these 33 plants only 5 plants are rated over 1000 MW.
For a country plagued with inflation, poor tax collection, rampant corruption, betting your energy security on imports when you have no reliable income source is simply unbelievable. The Chinese sold them a weird fantasy where CPEC would make Pakistan a rich nation paying for imported coal would not be a problem.