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title: "Pakistan’s exports to Central Asian states decline in FY26"
description: "Most outlets reported the 4.1% year-on-year drop in Pakistan’s exports to five Central Asian states in FY26. Dawn attributed the decline to the closure of a border with Afghanistan, while Profit also highlighted a sharp 88.4% drop in imports and noted the impact of disrupted land trade routes."
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# Pakistan’s exports to Central Asian states decline in FY26

business · latest filing 28 Aug 2026, 11:26 AM PKT · 28 Aug 2026 · 2 articles from 2 outlets

**HarZaviya summary** — how 2 outlets covered this, generated automatically from their headlines and excerpts:

> Most outlets reported the 4.1% year-on-year drop in Pakistan’s exports to five Central Asian states in FY26. Dawn attributed the decline to the closure of a border with Afghanistan, while Profit also highlighted a sharp 88.4% drop in imports and noted the impact of disrupted land trade routes.

## Same story from 2 outlets

Each outlet's own headline, most recent first — read any at its source.

- **Profit** — [Afghan border closure drags Pakistan-Central Asia trade down 51% to $219 million in FY26](https://profit.pakistantoday.com.pk/2026/08/28/afghan-border-closure-drags-pakistan-central-asia-trade-down-51percent-to-dollar219-million-in-fy26) · 28 Aug 2026, 11:26 AM PKT
  > Pakistan’s exports to five Central Asian states fall 4.1% to $191 million in FY26, while imports plunge 88.4% to $28.5 million as land trade routes face disruptions
- **Dawn** — [Exports to 5 Central Asian states fall 4.1pc in FY26](https://www.dawn.com/news/2025665/exports-to-5-central-asian-states-fall-41pc-in-fy26) · 28 Aug 2026, 8:17 AM PKT · 81% identical wording to the newest filing
  > ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s exports to five Central Asian Republics (CARs) shrank 4.10 per cent year-on-year in FY26. The country’s exports to the region have yet to reach their full potential, apparently due to the closure of border trade stations with Afghanistan and land trade routes. Pakistan’s bilateral trade with these five Central Asian states — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan...

2 articles from 2 outlets, 28 Aug 2026. Headlines and links belong to their outlets — HarZaviya links out and never copies article text.

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