Success Stories of Pakistani Entrepreneurs

Success Stories of Pakistani Entrepreneurs

Success Stories of Pakistani Entrepreneurs Malik Riaz and Agha Waqar who represents Pakistan in Creativity world so far. When it comes to the success stories of the entrepreneurs in Pakistan, we do have numerous examples of such master minds and risk takers which have created an empire on their own just through their willingness and their determination for success.

Malik Riaz: 

One of the renowned and respectable businessmen in Pakistan is Malik Riaz, who have created his own name and got fame and strength all on his own. Although Malik Riaz has its family background as a wealthy and strong ancestor ship but when the contacting business of his father collapsed they have to spend a brutal time as he was just 19 years old. At the time he started his career as the lowly clerk in Islamabad, his educational background is still controversial but his close friends and the one who know him closely do rate him as the ultimate genius.

At the time of his marriage he was so poor that he was not having the money to buy the medicine for her newly born daughter and that is the modesty of this guy that he never forgets what the situation was when he was poor which makes him really generous and kind towards the poor.

Agha Waqar:

 Another Pakistani entrepreneur who has started from zero is now touching the sky and this is the great Agha Waqar who is just 32 years old and in the time span of 2 years he has managed to build a business empire of almost 90 corers. Agha Waqar is a doctor through profession but due to his God Gifted skill of entrepreneurship, the guy has managed to groom himself in various diversified businesses which included the distribution of petrol.

He despite of all such business does also have the government job which was initially in the health ministry and later in Federal Investigation Authority (FIA). He started the business when he was not having the enough money to make his own office which forced him to create the office at the home of his father. He is holding the current business of real estate and telecom and has almost 400 people working under him and he is spending a luxurious life with modern cars like BMW, Range Rovers and many more.

Khalid Awan

A flight engineer by profession, Khalid Awan showed his visionary skills early in his career when realized that flight engineer jobs might not continue with engineering advances in aircrafts. It meant that he had to find something new as a career path. Along with his elder brother, he ventured on the franchise of DHL in Pakistan. Experience of world's leading logistics and Courier Company provided Khalid Awan with skills and business knowledge for setting up a company of his own that he started in early 1980s. TCS Couriers proved to be a bigger challenge from onset because country's bureaucratic postal restrained any courier operator from carrying postal letters. Navigating this and many other political challenges, Khalid Awan continued developing a strong presence in country as first leading Courier and logistics brand. More than three decades later, company has grown into a conglomerate having coverage to related businesses.

Under leadership of Khalid Awan, TCS has host of remarkable management practices which enables it to remain highly competitive while maintaining a formidable presence all over Pakistan with thousands of employees. These practices as well as its history have been subject of a case study at Harvard Business School. This made TCS among few organizations from this part of the world to be featured at such coveted platform.

Hakim Muhammad Saeed:

A true scholar, writer, intellectual, innovator, entrepreneur and a philanthropist, Hakeem Muhammad Saeed is alive as an amazing person of diverse abilities in memories of Pakistan even years after his tragic murder in 1998. Hakim Saeed, as he was popularly known established Hamdard Dawakhana, from the institution his father created in India before partition. His organization which was mainly focused on traditional medicine later went on to diversify in fields of higher education, publishing and social work. Hamdard is one of the largest production facilities of traditional or herbal medicines in Pakistan. Hakim Saeed's work in reviving traditional medicine is considered to be pioneering in contemporary times because he established on modern footings and got it recognized by established bodies like World Health Organization.

Hakim Saeed was always optimistic and enthusiastic about Pakistan and what all this country has to offer. He established 'Madina-tul-Hikmat' (city of wisdom) in outskirts of Karachi which today houses different institutions of higher education including Hamdard University. Hakim Saeed was always very fond of interacting with children and was a popular figure among them through his writing from a children magazine, Naunehal. Hakim Saeed also served as Governor of Sindh.

Mian Muhammad Mansha

Mian Mohammad Mansha is the Chairman of “Nishat Group” - the biggest industrial and financial conglomerate of Pakistan. This group was founded in 1948 by Mansha's father Mian Mohammad and his three brothers. It was named after Nishat Haroon, the 3 year old grandson of Mian Mohammad Yaqub. Nishat Haroon was born to Mian Farooq who was married to the daughter of Mian Fazal Rehman of United Textile Mills, Multan. Windmills of God work in strange ways. In 1948 when Mansha's father Mian Mohammad Yahiya and his three brothers incorporated a partnership concern, it was called Nishat Corporation after Nishat Haroon, the three year old grandson of Mian Mohammad Yaqub, eldest of the four brothers. The child who gave his name to the group has disappeared in thin air and Mian Mohammad Mansha, Chairman Nishat Group is today on top of Pakistan's corporate world, boastfully accustomed to buying his casual outfit from Harbe Frog on Bond Street, shoes inevitably from Gucci, cardigans and overcoats from Burberrys’. Nishat Group had several industrial units in East Pakistan, which they lost in 1970. This group now owns ‘Muslim Commercial Bank’, five cement factories and numerous other industries.