Energy is an oligopoly, a fragmented market controlled by multiple hegemonies that take control of their respective areas under this sector. When you control the flow of energy, you control the economic output of a state. This situation has led to energy theft, a system where energy is diverted off-grid without any consequences or providers don’t pay bills, and the hiking of prices. One of the other major problems is development: all data on Pakistan energy consumption is commercial energy consumption, the energy that is billed in the National Grid with WAPDA and companies, what it doesn’t take into account is non-commercial consumption. But one remnant of an age-old time is the energy sector.
