The Geopolitics of Infrastructure and Securitisation in a Postcolony Frontier Space

Infrastructure has played an agential role in the securitisation of everyday life Karakoram high mountains north Pakistan. Geopolitics bear heavily on this region where Pakistan shares borders with China, whom it aligned its foreign and security policy, India, remains embroiled a long-standing territorial dispute. Consequently, Karakoram, geopolitical anxieties have reflected inwards onto local populations through both infrastructure securitised infrastructure. In postcolony frontier space, statecraft also frequently bypasses normative legal administrative structures; such exceptions to law administration antecedents colonial margins empire. This paper argues that long cycles military rule allowed acquire project technocratic expertise, become custodians state-led development, recently, assume guardianship of, enter into joint financing China on, construction projects.