{"id":755,"date":"2026-05-27T03:32:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asianewscast.com\/2026\/05\/27\/pakistan-and-the-economics-of-diplomacy\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T03:32:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:32:55","slug":"pakistan-and-the-economics-of-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asianewscast.com\/?p=755","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan and the Economics of Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Khurram Husain, one of Pakistan\u2019s most widely read business and economy journalists and a columnist at Dawn, joins host Tushar Shetty to examine whether Pakistan\u2019s recent diplomatic gains are translating into meaningful economic progress.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They discuss the tangible but limited economic benefits of Pakistan\u2019s geopolitical revival, the impact of the Iran conflict and Hormuz blockade on Pakistan\u2019s fuel supply chain and inflation, the emergence of a new regional grouping around Turkiye, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Pakistan and the trade complementarities unlocked by Iran\u2019s reintegration, the mixed legacy of CPEC and China\u2019s retreat from large-scale economic engagement with Pakistan, the structural roots of Pakistan\u2019s IMF dependency in successive cycles of military rule, the prospects for India-Pakistan stabilisation and a peace dividend, the drivers behind Pakistan\u2019s rapid solar adoption, and the limits of geoeconomics as a substitute for domestic fiscal and structural reform.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Click here<\/span><\/i><\/a> for a transcript.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Khurram Husain, one of Pakistan\u2019s most widely read business and economy journalists and a columnist at Dawn, joins host Tushar Shetty to examine whether Pakistan\u2019s recent diplomatic gains are translating into meaningful economic progress.\u00a0 They discuss the tangible but limited economic benefits of Pakistan\u2019s geopolitical revival, the impact of the Iran conflict and Hormuz blockade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nPakistan and the Economics of Diplomacy - Asia Newscast<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asianewscast.com\/?p=755\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pakistan and the Economics of Diplomacy - 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