# Foreign Affairs

- [Sixty years of friendship, US$13 million of trade: can the Islamabad agreements change Maldives-Pakistan ties?](https://www.goodmorningmaldives.com/news/maldives-pakistan-state-visit-trade-history-20-agreements-2026) — 2026-10-23, Foreign Affairs — President Muizzu’s October 2026 state visit to Pakistan ended with 20 agreements and a pledge to lift trade from US$13 million to US$200 million in two years. Using 35 years of UN trade data and Pakistan’s English and Urdu press, GMM asks why trade stayed small and what it would take to grow.
- [Operation Economic Outcast: how Washington is tightening the dollar system, and what it means for the Maldives](https://www.goodmorningmaldives.com/news/operation-economic-outcast-dollar-system-maldives-explainer) — 2026-10-16, Foreign Affairs — Operation Economic Outcast has moved US sanctions from named targets to whole sectors, from principals to service providers, and onto the world’s correspondent banks. How the dollar reaches the Maldives, what the new rules are, and what they mean for a small economy that lives on the dollar
- [Muizzu's SAARC call puts a 1.94-billion-person bloc back on the agenda](https://www.goodmorningmaldives.com/news/muizzu-s-saarc-call-puts-a-1-94-billion-person-bloc-back-on-the-agenda) — 2026-07-28, Foreign Affairs — President Muizzu has called for SAARC's revival and offered the Maldives' good offices. Nine years without a summit have left South Asia the world's least integrated region — under 5% intra-regional trade across a bloc of 1.94 billion people.

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