Press release

Pakistan fully supports 35-by-35 Global Electrification Pledge

DTC Press Release Distribution Network · 12 November 2026

Pakistan, November 12, 2026:

Antalya, Türkiye (GNP): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has confirmed Pakistan’s full backing for the 35-by-35 Global Electrification Pledge and said he is confident it can be met through collective effort. He spoke at a high-level meeting titled “Clean Energy Transition by 2035: Powering the Future.” Shehbaz said Pakistan has gone through a remarkable energy transition in the past two years. It has added nearly 22 gigawatts of rooftop solar capacity in that time, which he called a quiet revolution led by ordinary citizens who want affordable electricity and a cleaner, more predictable future. He added that, before leaving for Antalya the previous day, he inaugurated a key section of Pakistan’s seventh nuclear power plant, which will put 1,200 megawatts of clean electricity on the national grid. Clean sources, he said, now make up nearly 55 percent of the country’s energy mix. The transport sector is also changing, Shehbaz said. Under the recently launched auto policy, the government aims for 30 percent of new vehicles to be electric by 2030. Incentives, including lower tariffs, are being offered to promote electric vehicles, and all future government buses and motorcycles will be electric. For the first time, he noted, more than 10 percent of motorcycles sold in Pakistan this year were electric, a sign of growing momentum toward clean transport. Shehbaz cautioned that this momentum cannot last without adequate finance. Grids must be expanded quickly and reliably, storage strengthened and new technologies made affordable to all, he said, and the burden often falls on countries already struggling with heavy debt. Pakistan alone needs about $138 billion by 2035 for low-carbon electricity generation, plus another $50 billion to replace coal with solar power. The 35-by-35 target, he said, can be reached only if financial support matches global ambitions, through concessional capital and the transfer of affordable technology. He called for collective resolve to power economies without impoverishing people and to light homes without harming the planet.