News Summary

• Pakistan is in the midst of a solar boom that solar analysts describe as "unprecedented" Solar imports to Pakistan more than tripled from just one year earlier, approaching $2.1 billion.
• Pakistan has already imported 80% of last year's milestone amount during the first nine months of 2025.
• Pakistan's solar boom grows out of a decades-long power sector crisis, which has caused many Pakistanis to lose faith in the state's ability to consistently provide reliable electricity.
• "The scale of solar being deployed in such a short period of time has not been seen, I think, anywhere ever before," says Jan Rosenow, leader of the energy program at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford.