Weekly Brief | Week of April 10, 2026

The rise of regional stabilizer: Pakistan averts a global catastrophe

Apr 10 • Syed Ali Shehryar

Weekly Brief | Week of April 3, 2026

Pakistan's fiscal bleed goes (very, very) public with an unprecedented petrol hike and economic indicators ringing all sorts of alarm bells

Apr 2 • Syed Ali Shehryar

March 2026

Weekly Brief | Week of March 23, 2026

Pakistan runs out of imported gas on April 14. Everything else follows from that.

Mar 24 • Syed Ali Shehryar

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Weekly Brief | Week of March 18, 2026

Regional wars, oil pressure, and 30 days to close financing gaps before all of this transforms into a balance-of-payments crisis for Pakistan.

Mar 18 • Syed Ali Shehryar

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Black Rain Over Tehran: The Casualties No One Is Counting

Countries in South Asia and GCC need urgent measures to test air and seafood and block toxins from the strikes on Tehran's oil depots, or risk more lung…

Mar 9 • Syed Ali Shehryar

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Pakistan's Perfect Storm

How five simultaneous shocks, from a closed strait to an active war on the west and borrowed oil deposits, threaten an economic collapse and what we…

Mar 6 • Syed Ali Shehryar

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February 2026

Weekly Brief | Week of February 23, 2026

Pakistan’s risk tilts from “managed stress” to “corridor squeeze” as Iran war and Afghan line heat up

Feb 28 • Syed Ali Shehryar

A Government that Spoke National Need. Investors who Spoke Contractual Return.

What I diagnosed for free, the government paid billions to get wrong.

Feb 24 • Syed Ali Shehryar

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Weekly Brief | Week of February 16, 2026

Power tariff re-pricing and security shocks are tightening Pakistan’s decision space

Feb 20 • Syed Ali Shehryar

Pakistan's Real Estate Tokenization

A guide to PVARA and what does this tokenization mean for the sector

Feb 17 • Syed Ali Shehryar

Yutori, or Depth Over Speed

Signals that investors miss about Pakistan's mineral potential.

Feb 10 • Syed Ali Shehryar

August 2025

Deconstructing MIT's State of AI in Business Report

Why GenAI has failed to generate the expected ROI and what can businesses do about it.

Aug 25, 2025 • Syed Ali Shehryar