PAKISTAN PERSPECTIVE

Pakistan observes India's energy crisis with a mix of shared anxiety and contained schadenfreude. Dawn, the liberal Karachi daily, analyzes India's vulnerability as a mirror of Pakistan's own energy precariousness: both countries depend massively on the Gulf for their hydrocarbons. But the tone is tinged with discreet 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 Muslim solidarity prism: Pakistan sides with the Arab and Iranian victims of the conflict, framing the war as an American-Israeli aggression against the ummah. The impact on Pakistani workers in Gulf countries — millions of families depend on expatriate remittances — is a burning issue.

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

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