Dreaming of connectivity

GWADAR has long remained Pakistan’s geoeconomic dream. Whenever officialdom thinks of extracting economic advantage from geopolitics, Gwadar is the first image that comes to mind. Yet the port has not realised its promised potential, and the adjoining economic zone still awaits investors. Pakistan’s facilitation of the Tehran-Washing­ton contact generated cautious optimism about a possible geoeconomic opening with Iran. Under the 2008 bilateral agreement on international road transport of pas...

By [email protected] (Muhammad Amir Rana)