Foreign Policy of Pakistan towards Central Asia and its Future Economic Relationship with Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan

This thesis examines Pakistan’s economic relations with two main states of Central Asia, namely those of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan by considering such relations as a foreign policy tool. The focus of the research is on these two countries because they are of vital importance to Pakistan in terms of their geographical location and energy assets a geopolitical approach to the interpretation of Pakistan’s economic relations is all the more necessary given the apparent underdevelopment of the country despite of its critical geopolitical positioning in Asia. To this end, the thesis takes up the responsibility of studying Pakistan’s foreign policy towards Central Asia during the period between 1991 and 2016 more in terms of economic relations.