What went wrong with ‘Pakistan’s Dubai’? – inside the Chinese initiative that is prompting terror attacks
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/26/what-went-wrong-with-pakistans-dubai-inside-the-chinese-initiative-that-is-prompting-terror-attacks
The small port city of Gwadar has a huge new airport funded by China, but local suspicion of Beijing’s true intentions threatens to wreck the project.
How Pakistan’s military is taking over its economy
https://www.ft.com/content/f3dae073-c158-43e2-a8c6-628acc46a868
The country’s armed forces have become intimately involved in everything from canal projects to energy contracts. Investors are increasingly nervous.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/26/what-went-wrong-with-pakistans-dubai-inside-the-chinese-initiative-that-is-prompting-terror-attacks
The small port city of Gwadar has a huge new airport funded by China, but local suspicion of Beijing’s true intentions threatens to wreck the project.
How Pakistan’s military is taking over its economy
https://www.ft.com/content/f3dae073-c158-43e2-a8c6-628acc46a868
The country’s armed forces have become intimately involved in everything from canal projects to energy contracts. Investors are increasingly nervous.