Margalla Global delivers unbiased, forward-looking research on the political, economic, and security dynamics shaping our world, with a focus on Pakistan.
As Pakistan enters September, the monsoon's true cost lies beyond the first damage count—in lost work, interrupted schooling, damaged health, weaker farm income, municipal repairs, and household debt.
Read MoreReducing federal bodies and payroll can generate savings, but lasting reform depends on clarifying functions, rebuilding workflows, managing staff transitions, and protecting the services citizens actually use.
Read MorePakistan's new Gulf defence framework deepens an important partnership, but durable strategy requires clarity about obligations, escalation, parliamentary oversight, and the boundary between collective security and regional rivalry.
Read MoreManaging public wheat stocks can stabilise supply, but recurring procurement, storage, import, and disposal decisions reveal a food system that reacts to inventory while neglecting competition, nutrition, and farmer incentives.
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A concise readout of Pakistan-facing macro indicators, refreshed alongside the Margalla Monitor for faster context before deeper analysis.
US–China rivalry, multipolarity, and how a fracturing order reshapes the room middle powers have to move.
Explore 23The corridor, the debt, and the partnership that anchors Pakistan to Beijing — and to the wider China question.
Explore 11Deterrence, the Line of Control, Afghanistan, water, and the regional security web Pakistan sits inside.
Explore 38The IMF, capital flows, supply chains, and the external forces that set the limits on Pakistan’s economy.
Explore 54Gulf realignment, oil and gas, remittances, and the Middle East’s shifting pull on Pakistan and the region.
Explore 11Water stress, the energy transition, climate shocks, and the slow-moving risks that compound every other.
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