From CEO Attock Oil.

 Pakistan's energy sector is full of mismatches and blunders which no other country can think of:

- reducing local gas production to accommodate imported LNG in pipelines 

- sitting on Thar coal for 25 years and then setting up large size power plants based on imported coal even after successful commissioning of Engro power plant in Thar

- Increasing generation capacity to 45,000 MW with no required enhancement of transmission capacity

- Decades of delay in exploiting hydal generation potential by becoming hostage to Kalabagh dam ; what stopped us from starting Bhasha and Dassu projects much earlier?

- Continued addition of thermal power plants and that too on imported fuels by all regimes under power policies of 1994, 2002, 2015 and even earlier.

- transmission & distribution losses in both power and gas

- dismally poor recoveries

- retrogressive E&P policies hindering aggressive exploration and foreign companies leaving

- blaming capacity payments to IPPs for the high electricity prices ignoring that more than 80% are  govt owned or under CPEC

- more than four years delay in finalising Refineries Policy costing $ 4 Bill foreign exchange loss in terms of products imports