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Dr Mukammil Shah Yousafzai
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Dr Mukammil Shah Yousafzai is a researcher and analyst of geopolitics and geoeconomics, writing on South and Central Asia, China, India, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Gulf. He is Director of Quality Assurance and Human Resource Development at Prime Group in Islamabad.
Articles
7 published · RSS-
Opinion · Middle East & North Africa
The Iran War: Another Costly War on America’s Head
Who Pays the Price, Who Profits, and Who Controls the Economic Fallout?
1 November 2026·6 min read
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Analysis · South Asia
The Twenty-Year War That America Lost in Victory
Afghanistan: The Human, Economic, and Strategic Cost to America, Its Allies, Pakistan, and the Region
24 October 2026·12 min read
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Analysis · South Asia
Pakistan's Mineral Wealth: A Geological Fortune, A Governance Failure and A Geopolitical Contest
Why a Resource-Rich Nation Has Yet to Transform Its Underground Wealth into Broad-Based Prosperity
17 October 2026·10 min read
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Analysis · South Asia
Afghanistan After NATO: When the Balloon Economy Lost Its Air
From the pre-9/11 battlefield to two decades of foreign-funded state-building — and now a search for economic survival
2 October 2026·7 min read
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Analysis · South Asia
The Cost of Partition: What the Subcontinent Lost in 1947
What was the economic, political and social price of dividing an integrated subcontinent?
29 September 2026·9 min read
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Opinion · South Asia
What If We Were Not Enemies?
Pakistan and India: two neighbours spending too much energy on each other, while poverty waits at the door
27 September 2026·6 min read
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Briefing · South Asia
Pakistan, Afghanistan Trade: From a Historic Lifeline to an Economic Deadlock
When two neighbours close their doors, both sides pay the price.
17 September 2026·3 min read
