Thousands of Pakistani Sailors Work the World’s Most Dangerous Shipping Lane. Who Is Watching Out for Them?

Pakistan has positioned itself as a maritime nation whose citizens crew commercial vessels across the globe, yet when a missile strike hit the cargo ship Tihamah in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait on August 11, 2026, killing four crew members — three of them Pakistani nationals — the country had no independent mechanism to protect them, […] The post Thousands of Pakistani Sailors Work the World’s Most…