Japan and Pakistan are forging deeper geo-economic ties through trade, investments, reforms and provincial engagements like Punjab’s 2025 outreach. This partnership unlocks potentials in mining, IT, energy, agriculture, and urban development for mutual growth, stability, and innovation.
President Prabowo Subianto’s landmark visit to Pakistan in December 2025 has ignited a new era of geo-economic synergy, with upgraded trade agreements, diversified investments, and collaborative potentials promising mutual prosperity for both Muslim-majority powerhouses.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s pivotal October 2025 visit to Malaysia has revitalized bilateral ties, with $200 million halal meat quotas, six MoUs, and commitments to renegotiate the MPCEPA, unlocking trade, tech, and investment potentials for mutual growth.
Pakistan’s deepening ties with Thailand, Vietnam, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Philippines and Singapore – marked by 2025 PTA negotiations with Vietnam, FTA revival with Thailand, and investment calls for herald untapped trade, tech, and connectivity potentials of mutual growth.
António Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, uses this statement to highlight how climate change shapes security, economics, development, and human survival. In the context of Pakistan, his message reflects how climate impacts have moved beyond environmental concerns and now threaten national stability, food systems, and long-term economic planning. The quote supports your article’s argument that climate change must be treated as a strategic and geoeconomics priority. Pakistan is experiencing a degree of climatic stress which is redefining its economy, its security perspective and the lives of millions of people. Floods, heatwaves and changing rain patterns are no longer a rare occurrence. They have already turned out to be a constant development burden. Since the nation struggles to revive itself after the frequent tragedies, the same question pops up every now and then: how can Pakistan establish long-term stability in the climate-prone area? An emergent thinking of policy is to consider climate resilience by the lens of connectivity. Connections between the energy systems, transportation networks, water management, and regional collaboration will make Pakistan convert climate risk into an
economic regeneration opportunity. This is a geoeconomics prism that provides a viable path ahead when the price of not doing is increasing.
Though South Asia is economically growing, it is a paradox that close to a billion people in South Asia are still experiencing moderate poverty. Severe socio-economic conditions in South Asia makes its growing Gross Domestic Product (GDP) dubious. Poverty is a major obstacle to both human development in the region and global progress on poverty eradication. One of the major reasons for this underdevelopment in South Asia, is regional prioritization of geopolitics over geoeconomics, particularly the enduring rivalry between India and Pakistan. Given that political rivalries dominate the national objectives, the South Asian countries are blinded to vast economic cooperative opportunities in the region.
Pakistan’s economic reforms and investor-friendly policies, supported by the SIFC, aim to attract investment across key sectors, while its strategic location, rich resources, and growing global interest position it as a rising geo-economic and geopolitical player.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming economic intelligence by enhancing data analysis and decision-making, significantly reshaping geo-economic strategies -especially among major powers like the US and China -while offering substantial economic benefits alongside challenges such as rising inequality, energy demands and potential disruptions to jobs and global economic balances, all of which demand nuanced policy responses.
