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The Jute and the Gas

Pakistan’s Extraction Economy is Writing Bangladesh’s Sequel

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Feb 04, 2026
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Article updated with an additional section on Economic Imbalance, Broken Representation, and the Foreign Hand - FEBRUARY 5TH, 2026

History does not repeat, but it rhymes. The verses Pakistan is reciting today in the mountains and deserts of Balochistan sound hauntingly similar to the elegy it once composed in the rice paddies and jute fields of East Paki…

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