Tariff Wars, the U.S.–Iran Conflict and the New Geography of Shipping, Aviation & Investment. Global trade is being hit by two different disruptions at the same time. The U.S.-led tariff confrontation is disrupting the economics of trade. The U.S.–Iran conflict is disrupting the geography of transportation. One changes where goods remain commercially viable to buy...
Some political figures are remembered for the offices they held. Others are remembered for the principles they refused to abandon. Syed Ali Shah Geelani belonged to the second category. For decades, he remained one of the most prominent voices of the Kashmiri struggle for self-determination. His death on September 1, 2021, marked the end of...
A TFN Regional Trade & Transport Analysis The latest tightening of U.S. sanctions against Iran should not be viewed merely as an Iran–United States confrontation. It is increasingly becoming a regional trade, banking and transport issue affecting the Gulf, China, South Asia, Central Asia, Russia and the wider Eurasian logistics system. On 24 August 2026,...
Pakistan possesses enormous potential in the livestock and meat industry, yet this potential remains largely underutilized in international trade. The country produces more than 6 million metric tonnes of meat annually, but its total exports of meat and meat preparations are only around US$530 million a year. Pakistan’s reported share of the global halal meat...
In 2025, Mehraj Malik did the safest thing a politician can do: he won an election. The Aam Aadmi Party legislator from Doda took his assembly seat after voters elected him. Months later, the district magistrate detained him under the Public Safety Act, without trial or conviction, for the better part of a year. Chief...
Sadat Choudhary is a Canada-based entrepreneur working at the intersection of cultural diplomacy, activism, and social justice. A few months back I sat in a community hall in Toronto, folding chairs, a coffee urn nobody ever quite empties, listening to a group of young Pakistani-Canadians talk about a housing project back home. Half of them...
Seven years have passed since 5 August 2019, when the Indian government revoked the State of Jammu and Kashmir’s special constitutional status and reorganised the former state into two Union Territories. Yet the central political question of Kashmir, an internationally disputed territory, remains unresolved. The region has experienced profound institutional change, but questions of political...
The directives issued by the Prime Minister’s Office following the tragic fire incident at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) deserve appreciation. The swift response to the interim inquiry report, including directions for disciplinary and criminal proceedings against those found responsible, demonstrates that the state can act promptly when it chooses to do so....
The tragic fire in the nursery of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad, in which newborn babies lost their lives, has shaken the conscience of the entire nation. These were not ordinary patients who could run, call for help or protect themselves. They were newborn babies—fragile, innocent lives that had only just entered...
TFN Research & Policy Analysis Uzbekistan’s freight traffic with members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation reached approximately 33.5 million tonnes in 2025, around 40 percent—or about 9 million tonnes—higher than five years earlier. The headline is significant. But the more important story lies behind the number. Uzbekistan is one of only two double-landlocked countries in...
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