Dr. Muhammad Abdul Saboor

It is an incredible feeling to witness @IrfanPathan & @harbhajan_singh are celebrating wholeheartedly in honor of our #AfghanAtalan victory (our victory)! We will always remember and cherish those who share in our happiness.♥️✊ 🇦🇫🫶🇮🇳 #AFGvSL

Representing LPP on the main stage, Dr. Muhammad Abdul Saboor, CEO of LPP, delivered crucial insights on localizing climate adaptation. Drawing from frontline operations across South Punjab, Upper Sindh, and KP, his intervention focused on Survivor-centered Safeguarding, Climate-Resilient WASH: Youth Leadership, and Local Governance. The LPP team hosted a dynamic exhibition stall showcasing our decade-long frameworks in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), community resilience, and WASH. A key highlight was an insightful engagement with the U.S. Consul General in Lahore, along with representatives from international donor agencies, government departments, and civil society partners.

A short note on the privatization of Pakistan's DISCOs. DISCOs are in a death spiral. Every year they sell fewer and fewer units. Every year the cost per unit goes up. Every year more customers leave for solar. And at Rs 38 a unit and above, who can blame anyone for going solar? Privatization is a good step. But not with the current model. The the only way it will be a success is to let DISCOs generate their own electricity and price it competitively. A DISCO that can produce cheap power should be free to pass those savings on to the customer, not forced to charge the same national rate as everyone else. Whether it is wind, solar or anything else. As long as it is cheaper than the National Tariff, DISCOs must be able to invest in energy generation and thus be able to offer consumers cheaper electricity. If this is not done, the death spiral of lower units consumed leading to higher unit costs will continue. Two caveats: 1.⁠ ⁠The Government cannot let DISCOs self-generate everything, as they have capacity payments to make. So the practical solution is a tapered ratio. Let DISCOs produce a set share themselves, say 20-30% to start, growing as old IPP contracts expire. 2.⁠ ⁠This will get political the moment one province's DISCOs offer cheaper electricity than another province. Im honestly not sure how to solve this issue but the question is simple: Does the Government want a functioning power sector, or a politically convenient one? In short: Cheap electricity should be the goal, not something the Government stands in the way of. Without pricing freedom, whoever buys these DISCOs is inheriting a shrinking customer base tied to a rate they cannot control. That is not the privatization of a business. It is the privatization of a death spiral.

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