"Israel is an illegitimate state which was inserted into the heart of the Ummah and Pakistan will never recognize it."
Father of Nation Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
#طوفان_الاقصى_#FreePalastine
One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.
A video clearly shows an unarmed, injured person being bombed by Israeli aircraft along with his fellow unarmed civilians in cold blood.
A video that the world must never forget.
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The real story isn’t the shift to solar energy itself, but how it happened and who the true beneficiaries were. Expensive fossil-fuel power plants were installed on massive loans, and people are still paying off those loans today. Distribution infrastructure was never adequate, so the plants never generated anywhere near their designed capacity, largely because they remained the most expensive power in the region. Demand was weak as businesses became uncompetitive, and no meaningful grid upgrades were carried out to handle the additional load. Many suspect these plants were built not to produce electricity but simply to secure full capacity payments.
As a result, consumers now pay three times over: for the original loans, for the electricity they actually consume, and for the electricity that was never produced (via capacity charges). Fuel was procured and paid for at full capacity regardless of actual generation, this worsened the trade deficit, and surplus fuel was frequently diverted to the black market because the plants either could not or would not run at full load. When electricity tariffs skyrocketed because of this vicious cycle, the same oligarchic interests began importing solar panels and systems and selling them into the local market. Once households and businesses switched to solar, their overall energy burden increased further: they still have to pay the full bills for both the power that is generated and the power that is not generated, mostly to the same circle of elites. After all, most of the original power plants were built by front companies or close relatives and associates of the very people who had signed the original agreements and were, by then, sitting in government.
Just imagine: ordinary citizens have already paid, and continue to pay, for the loans, the electricity bills, and the solar installations, while the rupee has depreciated sharply. Now calculate the real return on investment (ROI) or return on equity (ROE) for those who orchestrated the entire cycle. Just imagine.
Pakistan may be accidentally building one of the world’s first decentralised #solar economies. The craziest part? Real scale barely shows in official stats. Imported 51.5 GW solar panels by late 2025—nearly = entire grid. Yet registered net-metered rooftop solar just 5.3–6.8 GW.
What makes this story so extraordinary is the speed.
In only a few years, Pakistan appears to have gone from a relatively minor solar market to potentially sourcing around a quarter of its electricity from solar once distributed generation is included.
👉 ~16.6–17 GW solar imports in 2024
👉 ~18 GW solar imports in 2025
👉 ~51.5 GW cumulative imports by late 2025
👉 Rooftop solar: ~1.3 GW → 4.1 GW in 2024
👉 ~5.3–6.8 GW registered rooftop solar in 2025
👉 24+ GW estimated behind-the-meter/off-grid
👉 Solar potentially ~25% of actual electricity use
The massive gap between imported panels and officially registered systems strongly suggests tens of gigawatts are now operating quietly on homes, farms, factories and businesses across the country.
This increasingly looks less like a normal energy transition and more like large-scale consumer-led grid defection.
And economics is driving nearly all of it.
Electricity tariffs surged. Diesel prices climbed. Blackouts remained common. Meanwhile ultra-cheap Chinese solar panels and falling battery prices made self-generation economically irresistible.
So millions effectively made the same calculation:
Generate your own power, or remain trapped inside an expensive and unstable system.
Once solar becomes cheaper than the grid itself, adoption can move faster than governments, utilities and even official statistics can keep up with.
This isn’t gradual transition by any stretch. It may ultimately become a blueprint for how energy-poor nations break free from legacy old-world energy systems dominated by fossil fuels and increasingly expensive centralised power.
It’s decentralisation at escape velocity.
This is #Bettrification.
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