Pakistan's Economy
Budgets, debt, exports, manufacturing — and the people who actually move the numbers.
181 episodes
The rupee is being held. REITs are the exit.
with Muhammad Ejaz
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By 2032, 93% of Pakistan's budget will vanish into debt
with Qanit Khalilullah
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Simon Dixon: the US empire is being wound down by design
with Simon Dixon
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45:55 Pakistan's first giga factory bets on a new kind of rider
with Saad Farrukh
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1:40:52 Pakistan ran a fiscal surplus on petrol — not policy
with Adeel Azhar
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1:05:26 Solar is no longer a novelty in Pakistan — it is a compulsion
with Daniyal Siddiqui
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30:30 The Rs. 415 petrol price is not an international problem
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52:36 The oil price on your screen is not the price Pakistan pays
with Osama
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1:29:40 Fractional reserve banking is a modern form of riba
with Qanit Khalilullah
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1:19:56 Pakistan is energy abundant. It just runs a distribution problem.
with Farooq Tirmizi
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1:07:31 Pakistan finally has leverage. Can it actually use it?
with Ali Khizar
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1:38:12 Pakistan as a middle power in the new world order
with Faisal Aftab
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53:16 Pakistan goes crisis to crisis because it keeps printing money
with Yusuf M Farooq
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1:07:30 Pessimists sound smart, optimists make money
with Abdul Rehman Najam
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51:50 The dollar at 350 is not the end of the market
with Laeeq Ahmed
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1:01:52 Pakistan's elite never had to deliver — that's about to change
with Javed Hassan
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1:02:36 Ninety universities became 270 and the budget never moved
with Dr. Habib Bokhari
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1:48:23 You can't have 32 logistics players all surviving
with Ehsan Saya
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1:52:51 The West Sold Us a Lie Pakistan Is the Real Opportunity | Ft. Asfandyar Waraich | 497 | TBT
with Asfandyar Waraich
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1:56:46 Pakistan's delivery riders survive on five-rupee margins
with Umer Munawar
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1:38:30 How Dipitt got onto shelves in 33 countries
with Syed Zeeshan Haider
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1:42:59 Pakistan's stock market will double, but the onboarding is broken
with Ali Farid Khwaja
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1:25:23 Why Pakistan's next unicorn ships from a warehouse, not a website
with Arif Iqbal
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1:53:12 Why Pakistan's western wear market is the next $5B prize
with Muneeb Zafar
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1:39:29 Pakistan can add $9.8 billion to agri exports — without leaving home
with Jawwad and Salar
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1:51:07 Pakistan's electric scooter winner isn't selling to bike owners
with Saad Farrukh
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1:45:45 Why Pakistan needs an inclusive university, not another elite one
with Jahanzeb Burana
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1:33:08 What a Croatian chief people officer learned about Pakistani talent
with Ivana Bajamic
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1:37:39 Punjab's budget is finally spending on people, not just roads
with Marriyum Aurangzeb
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1:40:54 Why BYD priced its Pakistan launch under the hybrid competition
with Danish Khaliq
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1:13:14 Half the price of a Fortuner in Pakistan is tax
with Ali Asghar Jamali
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1:07:36 South Asia will spearhead the next era — if it learns to communicate
with Shahyan Shabbir
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1:27:18 Out of 100 applicants, Ibex hires two — and that is the problem
with Yasir Rafiq
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51:28 Why BAT won't just stop selling cigarettes
with Johann van der Muilen
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1:47:53 Why most Pakistani real estate is a dead investment
with Fahad Lone
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1:17:04 Why brick and mortar will never bank Pakistan's other 100 million
with Irfan Wahab Khan
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1:08:49 Why Iffi Wala is killing the BPO model for Pakistani talent
with Iffi Wala
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2:34:41 Islamic banking in Pakistan is mostly a rebrand
with Qanit Khalilullah
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1:59:38 Faisal Aftab: the 1971 system is over, and Pakistan is mispriced
with Faisal Aftab
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1:25:15 Pakistan is still stuck in primary school on its economy
with Muhammad Ali Tabba
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1:22:10 Pakistan's IT exports won't scale on cheap labour anymore
with Ahsan Jamil
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1:16:00 Pakistan is on a knife edge — and a planned default beats a forced one
with Sanjay Kathuria
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1:51:58 Pakistan is stuck in cotton while the world has moved on
with Mussadiq Zulqarnain
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1:43:48 Islamic and conventional banks have the same bottom line
with Dr Humayon Dar
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1:10:04 Pakistan is sliding into chaos. The only exit is a third republic.
with Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Zubair
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1:20:26 Islamic banking is an oxymoron, says Harris Irfan
with Harris Irfan
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1:34:56 Pakistan's problem isn't debt — it's that the inflows have dried up
with Muzammil Aslam
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1:03:18 Pakistan is selling its crown jewels at throwaway prices
with Ali Khizar
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1:31:28 We have killed hope: the Nishat CEO on Pakistan's broken engine
with Shahzad Saleem
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57:31 Islamic economics is the polar opposite of capitalism
with Dr Asad Zaman
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1:13:36 Pakistan will outgrow its government, not be saved by it
with Farooq Tirmizi
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1:39:52 Default is a choice: inside Pakistan's $26 billion debt squeeze
with Ahmed Jamal Pirzada
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1:05:52 Pakistan will outgrow its government, not fix it
with Farooq Tirmizi
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1:23:08 Default is a choice — and Pakistan keeps choosing to choke instead
with Ahmad Jamal Pirzada
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1:07:29 Pakistan's exports lose at the shelf, not the field
with Ehtesham Maqbool Elahi
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1:57:05 Pakistan's IT growth is flatlining — and the policy is making it worse
with Syed Ahmad
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1:52:56 Pakistan's youth is in a stubborn rage — and that's dangerous
with Nabeel Qadeer
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3:11:37 Zafar Masud: the life I am living now is a borrowed heaven
with Zafar Masud
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1:25:48 The $10,000 grant and why women are Pakistan's missing half
with Umar Khan & Iman Urooj
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1:16:51 Why smart money came into Pakistani startups when everyone left
with Faisal Aftab
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1:34:42 Why Pakistan built the power and still cannot deliver it
with Naeem Shafique
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1:53:41 What a metric-pass businessman taught a PhD about education
with Dr. Shahid Qureshi
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1:34:42 How Tecno built Pakistan's largest phone factory
with Adeel Tahir & Ali Raza
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2:05:02 How Shaukat Khanum built world-class cancer care from nothing
with Dr Aasim Yusuf
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1:26:42 Why Pakistan's healthcare crisis is really a pricing problem
with Dr. Muhammad Saleem Khan
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2:29:31 The electric car policy Pakistan's auto mafia killed
with Malik Amin Aslam
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2:32:08 Why a Facebook engineer left Seattle to digitise Pakistani fashion
with Arif Iqbal
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1:34:04 The honest case for leaving Pakistan on your skills
with Adil Ismail
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2:04:25 The AI scientist who says fundamental science already ended
with Dr. Nasir Ahsan
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1:27:11 Why solar is the dollar-pegged investment most Pakistanis can buy
with Bilal Naeem
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1:18:13 What Pakistanis get wrong about saving and investing money
with Wali Khan
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2:11:25 How Dawlance became a Pakistani engineering story
with Umar Ahsan Khan
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2:04:42 Pakistan can fix its own fundamentals — the reason it won't
with Junaid Iqbal
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1:58:46 Why price caps are quietly strangling Pakistan's farms
with Zeeshan Hasib Baig
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2:09:50 Pakistan doesn't have a water problem. It has a soil problem.
with Taimur Malik
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1:38:27 Why cheap data and a small mindset keep Pakistan offline
with Taimur Nawaz
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1:54:09 Why the dollar isn't going anywhere, and Pakistan isn't defaulting
with Farooq Tirmizi
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1:37:00 Why Pakistan makes billions of Panadol tablets but can't make the powder
with Farhan M. Haroon
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1:35:07 The global degree most Pakistani students never consider
with Shanza N. Khan
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1:08:05 When you look after people, they look after you
with Amir Paracha & Shehzad Roy
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1:19:21 A bank account doesn't change your life
with Kabeer Naqvi
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1:02:31 Eighty percent of Pakistan's remittances still move illegally
with Naqqash Hafiz
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Pakistan's economy has never been this dark
with Asad Umar
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The self-taught cheese maker feeding Pakistan's restaurants
with Imran Saleh
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The digital bank built from scratch in nine months
with Noman Azhar
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Pakistan could be a manufacturing powerhouse by 2050
with Yousuf M. Farooq
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The kid who wouldn't have finished tenth grade
with Nadeem Hussain
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The tax office that resolves cases in 37 days for free
with Almas Ali Jovindah
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Is America a diminishing power?
with Faisal Aftab
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Pakistan's rural network reaches 56 million — and nobody knows
with Shandana Khan & Meena Iqbal
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The startup building loyalty tech for restaurants
with Yahya Humayun
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Why Islamic economics is neither capitalism nor communism
with Dr. Asad Zaman
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Pakistan's exports problem has one easy fix: IT
with Dr. Sohail Naqvi
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Pakistan is a sleeping giant — Ammar Yaseen on investing in a crisis
with Ammar Yaseen
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The Pakistani who fixed a broken denim factory in Mexico
with A. Rauf Razzak Ganatra
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The man quietly connecting rural Pakistan to the internet
with Haaris Mahmood Chaudhary
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Pakistan's universities are producing toilet paper degrees
with Zia Khan
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Pakistan's politicians aren't incompetent — they're not trying
with Hussain Nadim
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Why Pakistan's milk problem is really a policy problem
with Qammar Nawaz
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From a village with no electricity to Silicon Valley CEO
with Amin Sukhera
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Why Pakistan's tourism problem isn't K2
with Azam Jamil
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Why Pakistan's justice system isn't ready for the tsunami ahead
with Shayyan Qaiser
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Pakistan is stuck in history while the world moves on
with Mohammad Zubair Umar
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The man who gave away an empire and started over
with Chaudhry Junaid Afzaal
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The logistics startup that solved payments first
with Muhammad Hassan Khan
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Pakistan's IT exports vs one Tata subsidiary
with Qasim Asad Salam
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How foodpanda became an innovation lab for delivery hero
with Ibad ur Rehman Ahmed & Syed Maz Hashmi
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The EU Ambassador who grew up translating for her refugee grandmother
with Dr. Riina Kionka
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Why Pakistan needs dollars, not remittances
with Laeeq Ahmed
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1:03:22 Asad Umar: Pakistan cannot grow without deep reform
with Asad Umar
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The engineer who built Pakistan's first fiber network
with Wahaj Siraj
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Why freelancing alone will never make you rich
with Saddam Hasan
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Pakistan's pension system will collapse in ten years
with Taimur Khan Jhagra
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Pakistan's real estate is a lottery, not an investment
with Zeeshan Akram Qureshi
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Why Pakistan keeps choosing real estate over growth
with Gonzalo Varela
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All roads lead to restructuring
with Javed Hassan
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Suleman Sharif: 'Pakistan treated wealth creation as a sin'
with Suleman Shehbaz Sharif
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Muzamil Hasan on going global and Pakistan's reform moment
with Syed Muzamil Hasan Zaidi
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50:28 Imran Khan on the cipher, the economy, and refusing to quit
with Imran Khan
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Pakistan is on the precipice — and holding itself back
with Asif Aziz
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How inDrive became Pakistan's no.1 ride-hailing app
with Hasan Ali Khureshi, Petrov Afinasé, Sidra Kiran
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Why Pakistan has less than 1% of merchants digitized
with Fawad Abdul Kader
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The physicist who came back to build Pakistan's science
with Dr. Muhammad Sabieh Anwar
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Why Pakistan's economy can't be fixed by the free market
with Dr. Taimur Rahman
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History doesn't repeat — it rhymes
with Faisal Warraich
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The VC who came back to fix Pakistan's universities
with Dr. Arshad Ahmad
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1:55:00 Abdul Razak Dawood: a Memon village, Columbia, and building DESCON
with Abdul Razak Dawood
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Pakistan's politics won't change until the economy is fixed
with Moonis Elahi
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The man who built Pakistan's tourism startup through COVID
with Muhammad Komail Abbas
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Why Pakistan's fintechs are failing the masses
with Atyab Tahir
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The industrialist betting on South Punjab's future
with Anees Khawaja
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Pakistan's first female-founded VC fund on what's broken
with Kalsoom Lakhani and Misbah Naqvi
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Pakistan's freelancers built this industry themselves
with Mohsin Muzaffar
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Why skill always comes before money in digital marketing
with Ali Khan Swati
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The engineer who wrote to Pakistan's president about stents
with Prof. Dr. Murtaza Najabat Ali
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The man trying to fix Pakistan's broken food supply chain
with Rafael Llerena
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Why Pakistan cricket is stuck in 1992
with Taimoor Ali Khan
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Why Karachi's housing crisis is a governance problem
with Humza Yaqoob Tabani
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The American who saw Pakistan before the VCs did
with Brandon Temensky
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Going from 700 employees to 7,000: Umar Javed's plan
with Umar Javed
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Food Panda's bet on Pakistan as its biggest market
with Muntaqa Peracha & Waqas Asar
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The doctor you couldn't find in three days
with Ehsan Imam & Asma Salman Omar
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Pakistan's tennis players are winning without support
with Muhammad Shoaib & Abdullah Adnan
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The trucker's son who raised $17.5M to fix freight
with Muhammad Sarmad Farooq
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The VC who writes the first check in Pakistan
with Shehryar Hydri
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Pakistan is near the cusp of disaster
with Javed Hassan
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Pakistan's houses are built to be resold, not to be lived in
with Wahaaj Nauman Qureshi
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Three bankruptcies before building a million-member community
with Sunny Ali
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Why Pakistan won't just buy gas from Russia
with Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
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Pakistan is a carbon gold mine. Here's the plan.
with Talha Khan & Hassan Anwar
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Pakistan's first premium pet food brand, made in Karachi
with Rafae Dossal
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Can 5G save Pakistan's economy?
with Yang Gu, Kashif Junaidi (Pasha), Akram Ali
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The BNPL startup targeting Pakistan's unbanked majority
with Arif Lakhani
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1:17:06 Can consuming less tea solve Pakistan's forex crisis?
with Fahad Yousaf
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1:31:46 Pakistan's fintech gap: one in twenty unbanked people
with M. Mudassar Aqil
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1:13:40 Pakistan's farms are top 10 in output, bottom 50 in yield
with Muhammed Bukhari
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1:22:10 Pakistan's first Google Developer Expert on building things
with Saad Hamid
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1:14:27 Jazz's CEO on why 4G for all beats 5G for a few
with Aamir Ibrahim
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1:07:49 How Pakistan's socio-economic classes are actually measured
with Kashif Hafeez Siddiqui
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2:28:23 Why Krave Mart won't lay off anyone for 18 months
with Haziq Ahmed
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1:42:38 Who really destroyed Karachi?
with Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman
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1:11:57 Pakistan has three to four weeks before it defaults
with Javed Hassan
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1:19:27 The man building Pakistan's electric mobility revolution
with Mohammad Hadi
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52:36 Why Pakistan's BPO industry never scaled like India's
with Salman Wajid Mian
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1:44:42 Pakistan's cash economy and the fintech fixing it
with Omar Moeen Malik, Omar Aftab, Huzaifa Ahmed
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1:20:32 Pakistan has no worthy number two to Systems Limited
with Kashif Manzoor
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1:18:40 PakWheels wasn't revenue positive until 2022
with Suneel Sarfraz Munj
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1:24:25 The CEO who took a demotion to join Unilever
with Amir R. Paracha
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1:07:35 Pakistan's IT problem is disconnection, not potential
with Mashroor Hussain
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1:41:37 Why Pakistan's factories still push, when the world has moved to pull
with Badar Khushnood
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1:48:31 Pakistan's farmland is a science problem, not a land problem
with Saad Tamman
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58:45 Pakistan has the largest Muslim diaspora in Silicon Valley
with Arzish Azam
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47:31 Pakistan saves seven rupees out of a hundred. India saves thirty.
with Mohammad Shoaib
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1:17:13 The obvious is the hardest thing to discover in Pakistan's economy
with Muzzammil Aslam
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1:09:08 Pakistan is the largest underserved retail market in the world
with Kamran Shaukat
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54:42 Pakistan's import duties are, in effect, export taxes
with Gonzalo Varela
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1:23:03 Why the next world order will be won on economy, not military
with Hamza
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1:19:02 Pakistan's regulations are built to punish, not to enable
with Ammar Habib Khan
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55:27 Why Pakistan drew a border around technology
with Hamza Saeed
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57:40 Why Pakistan's debt cycle quietly blocks you from investing
with Laeeq Ahmad
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52:57 Why the car scheme was the wrong gift for overseas Pakistanis
with Ariba Shahid
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