May be its becasue of this there is interesting development going on between Iran and Pakistan as Iran offered Pakistan to complete much delayed gas pipeline. This gas pipeline can solve Pakistan energy crisis but only due to usa pressure Pakistan is not completing this project. The result is energy crisis and huge prices of electricity.
While on one side EU are asking Russia to resume gas supply and on other hand they creating hurdles worldwide on such project's which can solve other countries energy crisis.
This summer price of electricity is increased further and we pay almost 20 to 30 percent as electricity bill of our earnings. If Pakistan buy cheap electricity and gas from Iran much of our electricity issues can be resolved.
https://dailytimes.com.pk/993365/iran-offers-completion-of-gas-pipeline-project-with-pakistan/Hopefully. I don't see any reason for Pakistan to face an energy crisis when their neighbor in the west has the biggest supply of gas and oil in the whole world. All they have to do is to stop letting a foreign country dictate their policies. Although I'm not that familiar with Pakistan politics but it looked like Imran Khan was working towards more independence before he was removed from office in a suspicious way.
I'm hopeful for the future though. A lot of things are changing like the news you shared. So far the Eastern Bloc is working a lot better than before (eg. pre-WW) and based on mutual benefits. Some countries like Turkey that played the middle are screwed but everyone else seems to be finding their sides already.