The Pipeline That Pakistan Cannot Either Build or Bury

The Pipeline That Pakistan Cannot Either Build or Bury

Jun 25, 2026

For more than a decade, the Iran Pakistan gas pipeline has occupied a peculiar place in Pakistan’s strategic vocabulary. It is invoked in moments of energy anxiety, rediscovered whenever imported fuel prices rise, and paraded as evidence that Islamabad still possesses options beyond

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Reviving the Iran–Pakistan Pipeline in an Age of Sanctions and Scarcity

Reviving the Iran–Pakistan Pipeline in an Age of Sanctions and Scarcity

Apr 20, 2026

The persistent recurrence of energy shortfalls in Pakistan, compounded by volatility in global liquefied natural gas markets and the fiscal hemorrhage induced by oil imports, has revived a project long suspended between strategic necessity and geopolitical constraint, the Iran–Pakistan gas pipeline. Conceived as

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Beyond Sanctions: Strategic Pathways for Reviving Iran Pakistan Energy Connectivity in a Fragmented Global Order

Beyond Sanctions: Strategic Pathways for Reviving Iran Pakistan Energy Connectivity in a Fragmented Global Order

Apr 3, 2026

The global energy system is undergoing a structural transformation in which security, finance, and logistics are no longer separable domains but deeply intertwined variables shaping the cost and continuity of supply. In this emerging order, energy is not merely traded; it is routed

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