Those are two different things.
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Nuclear power === Bumb maro Bumb, mit ja-aay ghum (and the dumb-bumbs are made from “borrowed or stolen” tech from the West.)
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Nuclear Electricity === sign the NPT, be a good world citizen, follow the laws, and then build power generation by “legally acquiring” the tech from the West.
Thus #1 and #2 are 180 opposite from each other.
However if you get #2 aka electricity first, then one day you may become industrial power, and thus the world power.
If on the other hand you get #1 first without becoming industrial power, then you will become even more desperate, and more poor, and thus more corrupt.
Thus we have the wrong priorities when it comes to industrial development.
It is safe to say that acquisition of Nuclear dumb-bumb has lead (so far) to the poverty, lack of industrialization, and thus MUCH HIGHER corruption in Pakistan.
However, us the Paks have a habit of “false pride” aka gharoor aka takabbur. So we’ll not accept our mistakes.
And thus we’ll continue getting poorer (as a nation) and thus more corrupt (as a nation).
Because our corruption is the result of poverty, and that makes us LESS SECURE and not MORE SECURE.
The poverty that results form not using our aql.