Analysis
The Lakhani Affair & Pakistan’s Russian Oil Gamble
South Shaheen In late 2024, UK and EU sanctions quietly landed on a 63-year-old Canadian-Pakistani oil trader named Murtaza Ali Lakhani. The charge was that through a web of trading firms, Tejarinaft, Fossil Trading, and a Dubai-based entity called Amur II, Lakhani had allegedly helped Russian crud