<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> As of 2017, nuclear power in Pakistan is provided by 5 commercial nuclear power plants . Pakistan is the first Muslim country in the world to construct and operate civil nuclear power plants . The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), the scientific and nuclear governmental agency, is solely responsible for operating these power plants . As of 2012, the electricity generated by commercial nuclear power plants constitutes roughly ~ 3.6% of electricity generated in Pakistan, compared to ~ 62% from fossil fuel, ~ 33% from hydroelectric power and ~ 0.3% from coal electricity . Pakistan is not a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty but is a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency . Pakistan plans on constructing 32 nuclear power plants by 2050 . </P> <P> Professor (and later Nobel laureate) Abdus Salam, as Science Advisor to the President, persuaded President Ayub Khan, to establish Pakistan's first commercial nuclear power reactor, near Karachi . Known as Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (KANUPP), the commercial power plant is a small 137 MWe CANDU reactor, a Canadian pressurized heavy water reactor . </P>

Total number of nuclear power plants in pakistan