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  <title>The Geopolitical Economist · Pakistan</title>
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    <title>Afghanistan After NATO: When the Balloon Economy Lost Its Air</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Dr Mukammil Shah Yousafzai</dc:creator>
    <description>From the pre-9/11 battlefield to two decades of foreign-funded state-building — and now a search for economic survival</description>
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AFGHANISTAN AFTER NATO: WHEN THE BALLOON ECONOMY LOST ITS AIR

Two decades of foreign money built a state in Afghanistan. When NATO left, it collapsed. Dr Mukammil Shah Yousafzai on what comes next.

From the pre-9/11 battlefield to two decades of foreign-funded state-building — and now a search for economic survival

From the opening:
“Afghanistan has always been more than a country on a map. It has been a meeting point of empires, civilizations, trade routes and competing geopolitical ambitions. Yet few periods transformed it as profoundly as the quarter-century following September 11, 2001.”

By Dr Mukammil Shah Yousafzai, Director of Quality Assurance and HRD, Prime Group, Islamabad

Read the full analysis: https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/afghanistan-after-nato-balloon-economy

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    <title>The Middle East’s New Firestorm: The Houthis, Saudi Arabia and the First Test of the Makkah Pact</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Hafijul Rahman</dc:creator>
    <description>The pact&#x27;s most important test may not be whether Pakistan and Türkiye enter the Yemen war, but whether the three countries can strengthen Saudi Arabia&#x27;s defence while preventing the conflict from widening.</description>
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The Middle East’s New Firestorm: The Houthis, Saudi Arabia and the First Test of the Makkah Pact

The Houthis warn Pakistan and Türkiye off Yemen. The pact's real test is containing the war, not widening it.

The pact's most important test may not be whether Pakistan and Türkiye enter the Yemen war, but whether the three countries can strengthen Saudi Arabia's defence while preventing the conflict from widening.

From the opening:
“The Middle East is once again facing a dangerous escalation. The conflict between Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Houthi movement has intensified, while the newly signed Makkah Joint Defence Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye is facing its first major test.”

By Hafijul Rahman, Freelance journalist, Bangladesh

Read the full analysis: https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/makkah-pact-houthis-saudi-arabia-first-test

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    <title>The Cost of Partition: What the Subcontinent Lost in 1947</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Dr Mukammil Shah Yousafzai</dc:creator>
    <description>What was the economic, political and social price of dividing an integrated subcontinent?</description>
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THE COST OF PARTITION: WHAT THE SUBCONTINENT LOST IN 1947

Partition split India and Pakistan’s shared economy: jute from its mills, cotton from its looms, canals from their markets.

What was the economic, political and social price of dividing an integrated subcontinent?

From the opening:
“There are dates in history that create new countries, and there are dates that permanently alter the economic geography of a civilisation. 1947 was both. The Partition of British India created two new dominions, India and Pakistan, but it also cut through an economic system that had developed over centuries.”

By Dr Mukammil Shah Yousafzai, Director of Quality Assurance and HRD, Prime Group, Islamabad

Read the full analysis: https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/cost-of-partition-1947-south-asia-economy

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    <category>South Asia</category>
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    <title>What If We Were Not Enemies?</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Dr Mukammil Shah Yousafzai</dc:creator>
    <description>Pakistan and India: two neighbours spending too much energy on each other, while poverty waits at the door</description>
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WHAT IF WE WERE NOT ENEMIES?

A view from Peshawar: what Pakistan and India lose to hostility, and what trade and investment in people could gain.

Pakistan and India: two neighbours spending too much energy on each other, while poverty waits at the door

From the opening:
“Imagine a different South Asia. A Pakistani from Karachi, Lahore, Quetta, Islamabad or Peshawar sitting across a table from an Indian from Delhi, Mumbai or Kolkata not as an enemy, not as a proxy, not as a soldier, but as a businessman, researcher, teacher, doctor, engineer, student or neighbour.”

By Dr Mukammil Shah Yousafzai, Director of Quality Assurance and HRD, Prime Group, Islamabad

Read the full opinion: https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/pakistan-india-what-if-we-were-not-enemies

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    <category>South Asia</category>
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    <title>Pakistan, Afghanistan Trade: From a Historic Lifeline to an Economic Deadlock</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Dr Mukammil Shah Yousafzai</dc:creator>
    <description>When two neighbours close their doors, both sides pay the price.</description>
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Pakistan, Afghanistan Trade: From a Historic Lifeline to an Economic Deadlock

Closed crossings cost Pakistan $177m a month and cut Afghan grape exports from 44,000 tonnes to 256.

When two neighbours close their doors, both sides pay the price.

From the opening:
“For decades, Pakistan and Afghanistan were connected not merely by a border but by a powerful economic artery. Karachi's ports provided Afghanistan with access to international markets, while Pakistani traders depended on Afghanistan for markets, transit business, fruits, vegetables, coal and other commodities.”

By Dr Mukammil Shah Yousafzai, Director of Quality Assurance and HRD, Prime Group, Islamabad

Read the full briefing: https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/pakistan-afghanistan-trade-deadlock

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    <category>South Asia</category>
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    <title>India-Pakistan: The Next Major War?</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Vikas</dc:creator>
    <description>5 ways India can respond to the terrorist attack by Pakistan</description>
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INDIA-PAKISTAN: THE NEXT MAJOR WAR?

5 ways India can respond to the terrorist attack by Pakistan

From the opening:
“The thing that was started by the Pakistan-backed terrorist attack can be turned into a small-scale war between both nations The terrorists killed the unarmed Indian tourists — families, honeymooners, kids — who were attacked by terrorists in one of the most heartbreaking incidents we’ve seen in recent times.”

By Vikas

Read the full analysis: https://geopoliticaleconomist.com/articles/india-pakistan-the-next-major-war

#Geopolitics #SouthAsia #India #Pakistan #GlobalEconomy]]></content:encoded>
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