Again You are talking shallow and mixing up two or more things to fill in the text. Dams do not take 4 years in Pakistan to complete from round braking to turnkey stage. Give me one such example in this region other than chines Three Gorges dam. And that also involves the Chinese model of working where the project planning and utilization of resources is optimized.
When we were sitting in Dark with killer load sheddings only option we had was the thermal plants. And At the same time Neelum Jehlum, and Terbela 3 were happening. The wind turbines were being installed at the Sindh coast for immediate options of cheaper resources. (Kanup-3 and 4 were also being built - but let us not call them in the cheaper sources). All it needs is a memory and an open mind, which you Imranis don't have.
Bhikki, Haveli Bahadur Shah, Balloki, are the three most efficient thermal plants in Pakistan in record time ---- done by Nawaz and Co.
Criminal agreements with IPPS were done by Benazir at the time of their installation in early 90s. After that they were the only Govts had. IPPs were very much in a position to blackmail the Govts. and they did, And your Doptiononky IK and his disciples speak on this subject you act like hypocrites. Nawaz was out of power from 1999 to 2013. Has any one of you hypocrites have ever took that in your mind or all agreements with IPPS were always don by Nawaz ???
And when you talk about the surplus energy. we never were gound to have the surplus energy. We had about 6% GDP and at least 4 new industrial zones were being developed. It is your donkey who threw us down at -1.5% GDP and everything just stalled. Now whole nation is just Dancing on "jub aaye ga Imraan" gana.
To being with you'd like us to believe nawaz came in 2013, and project him as a messiah, the fact remains he was in power since 1980s and was only concerned about looting and corruption. So said all ipps agreements were done by Nawaz and co. Benazir started it but Ipps were also commissioned during nawaz tenure during 1997 tenure as well. Nawaz and co, ppp, anp and fake maulana can join hands time and again to save their corruption and enjoy power but they cannot join hands in interests of Pakistan, like develop consensus for kalabag dam, whose pre-fesability work has long being completed. 4 years was a typo, I meant 6-7 years that why I said successive governments are only concerned about elections. PMLN was in power in Punjab since 2008, and all he did was showbazi at minar-e-Pakistan.
Obviously you dont know about the criminal nature of agreements made in power projects installed during nawaz 2013-2018 tenure, just go and check the efficiency of those wind power projects and cost (30% well below international standards and at double the cost around $120-130 million per plant and expensive tarrif rates). But it doesn’t make an difference to you, because khata hai tu lagata bhi tu hai,
I know it hard for you to grasp but for the record, these power projects were all built under CPEC, which is part of china's trillion dollar belt and road 2013 initiative. So in short china was already going to invest in Pakistan's infrastructure and energy projects even if duffer of gawalmandi was not the pm of Pakistan. What was needed was better planning, negotiations and intentions. As an e.g. Despite having sufficient generation PMLN was pushing for 1,320MW imported coal Rahim Yar Khan Power project, when atleast NOW focus should have been on dams. It just goes to shows they are only concerned about their interests and of course you deliberately choose to ignore things for which is there is no explanation like upgrading distribution network, failure of which is leading to higher tariff cost to consumers.
I’ll take you back again to the original post, which you keeping avoiding to answer because you have no answer. Stupidest decision was dar ego to keep rupee over valued, import substitution and neglecting export, remittance and FDI.
When sharif tenure ended they have left Pakistan on bankruptcy. SBP foreign exchange reserves were $9 billion dollar with CAD of around $2billion dollar a month, that meant a reserve of few months, us kay baad kahan say chalanay thay yeah power plants. That happens when you run economy like they did. Nawaz ensure kay power generation kay shortfall kay baad, Pakistani awan ko bankcrupty bhi dikha ker jaoon.
Before you get all excited about the GDP growth during PMLN, they were expert in manipulation and exaggerating figures by fraudia dar and even what was achieved was not sustainable the way economy was run. The following two examples are enough for someone with an open mind.
On last day, PML-N govt shies from hiking prices (because it was going to hurt in election)
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1724311/last-day-pml-n-govt-desists-hiking-prices
but despite keeping dollar around 105 for good part of 3 years, in last 6 months of their tenure dollar had fallen to around 122 by June 2018 because it was no longer possible to keep it artificially overvalued and the adverse effect on economy had to come.