What do you mean consumer treated electricity like "mai-baap ka maal"? May be you mean 'power thieves' treated it like "mai-baap ka maal"? Lets keep a distinction between the two. ...
Yes. Perhaps one should make a distinction.
Remember mai-baap-ka maal means "subsidies" AND "theft". A government owned utility was never meant to make profit, and thus continued selling power at much lower rates for many years. Finally when government support collapsed, and rates had to go high, the consumers balked.
Thus it was a double whammy of "subsidies" and "theft" that killed the golden goose of electricity supply companies.
...... How did "islamic bum" come into the picture? Did "Islamic bum" divert money from our great-grand-plan of power projects which would've given us 10GW power?
Why do you ignore the main theme of Islamic bum + our ethno-fascistic attitude towards Thar and Kalabagh.
Thus it is our national attitude that is responsible for the lack of expansion in "affordable" hydro and nuclear electric generation.
Here is a bit more detail.
As a result of islamic bum, two things happened.
We lost all the cash reserves. Remember Nawaz Sharif running post to pillar trying to stop the run on Pakistani reserves. But he couldn't. Then the sanctions came and we never recovered from it.
Now that we don't have cash, we couldn't buy nuclear plants.
The bum made us lose the loan options as well.
Second point
Ethno-fascism towrads KBD and Thar means we can't have cheaper electricity to balance off the high cost on oil based IPP.
Thus as a nation we have put ourselves in a straight jacket, and refuse to come out of it.
....... Power theft alongwith govt not paying IPPs their bills is costing us the power. If we can eliminate these two hurdles IPPs will be able to pump up their power production and load-shedding will be minimal, atleast we won't have 10-12 hours of no-power.
This is true but very very short term solution, and it is not sustainable over the long haul.