On one side lies a country desperately short of the roads, airports, hospitals, and power infrastructure it needs to grow. On the other lies an estimated $7 trillion in unmet capital and funding requirements for mega infrastructure projects, a figure so large it dwarfs the country’s entire GDP several times over. The question is no longer whether Pakistan needs infrastructure investment. The honest answer is that our existing system for financing and delivering mega projects is broken in ways that money alone cannot fix. The infrastructure Pakistan needs will not be built by government balance sheets alone, nor by a handful of large institutional investors.