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Reimagining the Federation of Pakistan
What a pragmatic division into new provinces costs, who pays, and how it can be built inside existing fiscal space
Jul 21
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Syed Ali Shehryar
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The Fault in Our Stars
Is the Muslim World Responsible for Fueling the Zionist War Machine? And how that war reaches Pakistan.
Jul 16
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Syed Ali Shehryar
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The Recursivist's Brief | July 16, 2026
No Country for Broken Peace
Jul 16
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Syed Ali Shehryar
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June 2026
Designing Punjab's Zero-Time to Startup Policy
Lessons from Implementation Failure
Jun 24
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Syed Ali Shehryar
What will it take for Pakistan to deliver on its investment climate goals
It was never a macroeconomic problem. A six-year account of governance, capture, and the reforms no one in office will table.
Jun 19
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Syed Ali Shehryar
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Weekly Brief | Week of June 10, 2026
Margin Call
Jun 12
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Syed Ali Shehryar
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April 2026
Weekly Brief | Week of April 10, 2026
The rise of regional stabilizer: Pakistan averts a global catastrophe
Apr 10
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Syed Ali Shehryar
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