Pakistan's Trade with Central Asia Declines Due to Land Route Closure

Pakistan’s trade with Central Asia faces snags

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s exports to five Central Asian Countries (CACs) fell year on year by 8.62 per cent in the first 10 months of 2025-26. Exports to the region have turned negative following the closure of the land route into Afghanistan. However, Pakistan has started exporting goods to CACs via Iran, but trade remains limited in volume because of the long distance. In absolute terms, the value of Pakistan’s exports to the five CACs — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uz...

By none@none.com (Mubarak Zeb Khan)