https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/authors/mukammil-shah-yousafzai 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. en https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/assets/brand/icon-512.pnghttps://geopoliticaleconomist.com/authors/mukammil-shah-yousafzai https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/iran-war-cost-america-who-pays-who-profits https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/iran-war-cost-america-who-pays-who-profits Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Dr Mukammil Shah Yousafzai Who Pays the Price, Who Profits, and Who Controls the Economic Fallout? Middle East & North Africa Americas https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/afghanistan-twenty-year-war-america-lost https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/afghanistan-twenty-year-war-america-lost Sat, 24 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Dr Mukammil Shah Yousafzai Afghanistan: The Human, Economic, and Strategic Cost to America, Its Allies, Pakistan, and the Region South Asia Americas https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/pakistan-mineral-wealth-reko-diq-governance https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/pakistan-mineral-wealth-reko-diq-governance Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Dr Mukammil Shah Yousafzai Why a Resource-Rich Nation Has Yet to Transform Its Underground Wealth into Broad-Based Prosperity South Asia Indo-Pacific https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/afghanistan-after-nato-balloon-economy https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/afghanistan-after-nato-balloon-economy Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Dr Mukammil Shah Yousafzai From the pre-9/11 battlefield to two decades of foreign-funded state-building — and now a search for economic survival South Asia https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/cost-of-partition-1947-south-asia-economy https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/cost-of-partition-1947-south-asia-economy Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Dr Mukammil Shah Yousafzai What was the economic, political and social price of dividing an integrated subcontinent? South Asia https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/pakistan-india-what-if-we-were-not-enemies https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/pakistan-india-what-if-we-were-not-enemies Sun, 27 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Dr Mukammil Shah Yousafzai Pakistan and India: two neighbours spending too much energy on each other, while poverty waits at the door South Asia https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/pakistan-afghanistan-trade-deadlock https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/pakistan-afghanistan-trade-deadlock Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Dr Mukammil Shah Yousafzai When two neighbours close their doors, both sides pay the price. South Asia