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DIRECTIONAL RELATIONSHIP · 2026

Pakistan → Bangladesh

This score represents Pakistan's relationship toward Bangladesh. The reverse direction is calculated separately and shown alongside it.

PAK → BGD+11Cooperative71% evidence confidenceBroad sourced evidence
BGD → PAK+11CooperativeSymmetric current scores
SIX-COMPONENT MODEL

Current component scores

Component values run from −100 to +100 and are combined with the published weights.

Security0

No reviewed evidence met this component’s scoring threshold.

Why this score?

The model starts every component at zero. No documented condition or active event currently changes this one.

Coverage gap: The reviewed record does not activate an additional frozen security rule for the 2015 baseline.

Diplomacy+20

1 documented factor produce the +20 diplomacy assessment.

Why this score?
  1. +20Pakistan-Bangladesh high-level engagement resumes
    Active event · 2025

    Renewed leader and foreign-secretary engagement and eight bilateral instruments marked a documented shift from limited contact toward sustained cooperation.

Coverage gap: The reviewed record does not activate an additional frozen bilateral diplomatic rule for the 2015 baseline.

Economic0

No reviewed evidence met this component’s scoring threshold.

Why this score?

The model starts every component at zero. No documented condition or active event currently changes this one.

Coverage gap: Reporter-side 2015 goods trade does not reach a frozen material-trade threshold, or is unavailable, and no reviewed standing agreement activates another rule.

Alignment+40

3 documented factors produce the +40 alignment assessment.

Why this score?
  1. +10Shared SAARC regional framework
    Baseline rule · 2015

    Pakistan and the counterpart participated in SAARC's standing South Asian framework for regional consultation and cooperation in 2015.

  2. +15United Nations voting alignment
    Baseline rule · 2015

    A rolling three-year comparison of UN General Assembly votes activates the alignment threshold.

  3. +15Annual methodology 1.1 recalculation
    Annual recalculation · 2026

    The current component replaces the 2015 quantitative threshold or time-bounded structural package with the evidence applicable in the selected year.

Disputes0

No reviewed evidence met this component’s scoring threshold.

Why this score?

The model starts every component at zero. No documented condition or active event currently changes this one.

Coverage gap: No qualifying frozen dispute or dispute-settlement rule is activated by the reviewed evidence.

Societal0

No reviewed evidence met this component’s scoring threshold.

Why this score?

The model starts every component at zero. No documented condition or active event currently changes this one.

Coverage gap: The reviewed record does not establish the exceptional or strong exchange required by a frozen societal rule.

CHANGE SINCE 2015

+4 in 2015 → +11 in 2026

The change is generated from sourced events and frozen scoring rules, not retrospective editorial adjustment.

ACTIVE EVIDENCE

Events affecting the current score

+4

Pakistan-Bangladesh high-level engagement resumes

Renewed leader and foreign-secretary engagement and eight bilateral instruments marked a documented shift from limited contact toward sustained cooperation.

Interpret with care

This analytical score is not an objective fact, endorsement or prediction. Confidence reflects evidence coverage, while incomplete or unavailable observations remain explicit. Differences below 5 points are treated as practical ties rather than a meaningful ranking.

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