Pakistan's young entrepreneurs
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
How the country’s young businesses are making a mark in fashion, beauty, music and tech.
Vivienne Nunis speaks to Humayun Haroon, co-founder of digital music platform Patari; Shameelah Ismail, chief executive of GharPar, a start-up that offers beauty services in the home; Myra Qureshi head of Conatural Beauty, Pakistan's first organic skin and haircare range; and fashion designer Umair Sajid.
(Picture: Humayon Haroon, co-founder of Patari at the company headquarters in Lahore, Pakistan)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. I'm Vivienne Nunes. Today we're taking you to Pakistan. |
| 0:08.0 | It's a country that's home to 200 million people, two-thirds of them under the age of 30. |
| 0:13.9 | We meet some of the country's most promising young entrepreneurs and hear how they're using technology to solve long-standing problems. |
| 0:21.5 | These women, when they would go to people's houses, they wouldn't get the amount they would ask for. |
| 0:27.3 | There was a lot of bargaining. |
| 0:29.0 | And then the clients would make them wait for hours and hours. |
| 0:33.0 | And we pay a visit to Pakistan's answer to Spotify. |
| 0:36.6 | The eventual aim is to have people go like, hey, we're going to find that track and you're like, |
| 0:41.1 | hey, take it out for Patari. |
| 0:42.3 | Okay, so you'll have made it when Patari becomes a commonly used verb. |
| 0:46.6 | Yeah, yeah, definitely, definitely. |
| 0:48.1 | That's all in Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:53.3 | In much of the world, ageing populations are concerning governments, but in Pakistan, the |
| 0:58.6 | demographics tell a different story. Nearly two-thirds of Pakistanis are aged under 30, roughly |
| 1:04.7 | 120 million people. In today's Business Daily, we'll be hearing from some of the country's |
| 1:09.8 | young business leaders, |
| 1:11.2 | making their mark in fashion, beauty, music and tech. |
| 1:14.8 | Traditionally, women in Pakistan have stayed in the home, raising families and managing the |
| 1:19.7 | household. As a result, women make up just one quarter of the workforce. |
| 1:24.5 | Women who do want to work face a tougher time finding jobs and a gender pay |
| 1:29.1 | gap. But some companies are trying to change that. I went to visit one such business in the |
| 1:34.1 | suburbs of Lahore. That's the unmistakable sound of waxing something that women all around the world will be familiar |
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