Pakistan has officially authorized the transit of goods from Iran through its territory, allowing Iranian goods to go through the Pakistani ports of Karachi, Port Bin Qasim, and Gwadar. This process is meant to allow key logistical gateways for Iranian trade to evade Washington’s maritime blockade, which would strangle the Islamic Republic’s access to global commerce.
Iran’s Tasnim News Agency stated May 4, the Monthly Review Online reported, that Islamabad’s Ministry of Commerce issued the “Transit of Goods through Territory of Pakistan Order 2026” on April 25, bringing it into immediate effect. The order activates a bilateral road transport agreement signed with Tehran in 2008 but never put into effect.
There are two significant land crossings between Pakistan and Iran: the first links Taftan in Pakistan to Mirjaveh in Iran; the second links Gabd in Pakistan with the Rimdan border crossing in Iran. Now, as a result of the Pakistan Ministry of Commerce ruling, Iranian goods can be transported into Pakistan, through these border crossings, and then shipped to the Pakistani ports of Gwadar, Karachi, or Bin Qasim, on the Arabian Sea.
