Interview with Mr Shahzad Khan, a rebellious engineer from Multan Profile Shahzad Khan is a globally renowned direct-response copywriter from Pakistan. He is the author of the “The Ultimate Copywriting Handbook” and is presently running a popular support group on Facebook where he is leveraging his skills and knowledge to empower and guiding others to earn at least 6-figures a month. PAGE: Tell us a little about yourself, your background, your education, and your work? Shahzad Khan: Born and raised in Multan, I was an A+ student and excelled in school. I joined UET, Lahore for Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering and…
Author: Asma Qureshi - Ahsan Nisar
With the rampant rise in E-commerce and explosion of mobile commerce, the economic playing field for women in Pakistan is changing rapidly and has a positive transformative impact on women entrepreneurs. Not challenging the culture barriers that sometimes require women to stay at home, e-commerce offers women in Pakistan the liberty to work from the comfort of their homes while expanding their online businesses and earning a livelihood. With this backdrop in mind, PakistanCreates is an e-commerce platform designed specifically for Made in Pakistan products. It is a project of FiveRivers Technologies, which is an international award-winning software company based…
Since 1978, Alif Laila Book Bus Society has focused on the future of the children of Pakistan by opening up the world of books to them; giving through libraries and a belief in them as centres of independent research and joyfulness, safe havens where they can explore and imagine. “Our mission is to empower children to think critically and creatively, to empathize and build bridges, to befriend books and learn skills,” shared Basarat M. Kazim – the President of ALBBS. They focus on 7 main areas: 1) Access to quality children’s books; 2) Hands on learning 3) Teacher development; 4)…
Interview with Ms. Mahe Zehra Husain – CEO Five Rivers Technologies Mahe Zehra Husain is one of Pakistan’s youngest female tech CEOs heading a leading software firm. She is a trained mathematician and data scientist with a passion for creativity; she’s been using her right brain to balance her left brain dominated life and feels both sides of the brain work together as a whole to become much more than the sum of their parts. Unlike most children in Pakistan, Husain was home-schooled after she turned 10. She excelled throughout her school years and at nineteen she started her Masters…