The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) could expand into a regional trade network by incorporating Iran, linking Pakistan’s western border with broader economic opportunities. However, escalating Iran-US tensions, renewed fighting.

Pakistan’s energy bill is usually discussed as if it begins and ends with the international price of crude. But the price paid for a barrel is only the beginning…

On a treeless ridge more than 4,000 metres above sea level in southeastern Tibet, there is no road, and in many places no reasonable way to build one; the terrain is too steep and ecologically fragile…

Ahsan Iqbal presented Pakistan’s ML-1 modernisation plan in Ulaanbaatar, highlighting the railway’s potential to expand trade, freight capacity and regional connectivity…

Earlier this month, more than 80 metric tons of dried chilies from Pakistan arrived at the Chengdu International Railway Port. Packed into eight containers, the cargo entered China…

Even as investment tops 327 billion rupees, firms at Allama Iqbal Industrial City report inadequate wastewater infrastructure, unreliable utilities, and no public transport…

Two ports being described as “sister ports” can sound like a diplomatic formality, the kind of language that fills a joint statement and changes little on the ground…

Rotating chairmanships rarely change anything. They produce a flag-handover ceremony, a communiqué full of familiar phrases, and a year of meetings that fade quietly…

Two new railways are being planned across the map of Central Asia right now, but neither will fix the trade collapse on Pakistan’s existing routes while they are being built…

The second phase of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC 2.0) involves a trilateral geographical expansion aimed at connecting landlocked Afghanistan to the corridor…

The disruption in the Strait of Hormuz in early 2026 briefly redirected regional cargo flows  toward  Pakistan’s ports, with  Karachi  recording  an unprecedented…

For a border post most of the world has never heard of, Torkham carries an outsized weight this year. It is a narrow gap in the Kyber hills where trucks queue for days…

At Al-Safa Palace in Makkah on August 7, Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Pakistan…

Pakistan built the highways, lit up the power plants, and dredged Gwadar into a working port. What it has not built is a way to turn any of that into more exports…

Certain shipping patterns reveal how a country is viewed by its neighbours. It is not the vessels that dock matter most, because the goods they carry already move quietly…

Government focus and persistent incentives through ADP 2016-21 and AIDEP 2021-2026 have broken the Big-3 nexus and increased total number of automobile manufacturing and assembling firms to over 15 in Pakistan.

For more than a decade, discussions about Gwadar Port have been dominated by geography. Analysts frequently point to its location outside the Strait of Hormuz…

Every time Pakistan signs another agreement with the International Monetary Fund, you can practically predict the conversation that follows. Critics call it…

Nineteen years ago, on February 6, 2007, Pakistan signed away Gwadar Port’s commercial future for four decades. The government would build the roads…

AT a time when regional tensions have long constrained Pakistan’s economic potential, recent diplomatic engagement between the US and Iran with Pakistan…

Opportunities in global trade do not always arrive with clear signals. Sometimes, they emerge quietly in crisis. Today, one such moment is unfolding in the…