Pakistan is for sale, but nobody wants what it's offering. Procter & Gamble has shut its doors after three decades. Microsoft closed after 25 years. Shell sold out. Telenor, Uber, Careem and pharmaceutical giants like Pfizer, Bayer and Sanofi have all walked away. The exodus is unprecedented, and the message is brutal: Pakistan is not worth the trouble.

Yet whilst multinationals flee the collapsing market, Pakistan is hawking its land like a desperate landlord. Over 2,000 acres of Balochistan, including Gwadar Port, have been leased to China for more than 40 years under the China Pakistan Economic Corridor deal. Tax exemptions and operational control have been handed over wholesale. Sovereignty traded for survival.

Now Donald Trump has entered the game. In 2025, Pakistan courted Trump wi

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