PAKISTAN PERSPECTIVE

Pakistan observes India's energy crisis with a mixture of shared anxiety and barely contained satisfaction. Dawn, Karachi's liberal daily, analyzes India's vulnerability as a mirror of Pakistan's own energy precarity: both countries depend heavily on the Gulf for hydrocarbons. But the tone carries a discrete satisfaction that the neighboring giant, so quick to present itself as an emerging power, is reduced to rationing cooking gas.

Geo TV covers the crisis through the prism of Muslim solidarity: Pakistan aligns with Arab and Iranian victims of the conflict, framing the war as U.S.-Israeli aggression against the Islamic community. The impact on Pakistani workers in Gulf countries—millions of families depend on remittances from expatriates—is a sensitive topic.

ARY News, close to the military establishment, emphasizes that the Iran-Pakistan pipeline (IP) project, blocked for decades under U.S. pressure, could have protected Pakistan from this crisis. The irony is sharp: American sanctions on Iran prevented a solution that would have benefited the entire region.

The News International analyzes implications for Indo-Pakistani rivalry: if India enters recession, pressure on the Kashmir Line of Control frontier could paradoxically decrease—a geopolitical calculation that Pakistani military analysts do not hesitate to articulate.