Pakistanis shine in Forbes ‘30 under 30’ list

NEW YORK: Nine individuals of Pakistani origin have been featured on Forbes, the top American business magazine’s ’30 under 30′ list of 2018.

The list, released on Tuesday, features at least 300 individuals who have done some outstanding work in different professions, such as arts, enterprise technology, entertainment and sports, social entrepreneurs, celebrities, youngest, finance and venture capital, healthcare and science, industry manufacturing and energy, media marketing and advertising, retail and e-commerce, big money and consumer technology.

Nine Pakistani Featured on forbes – America’s Top Business Magazine

The nine Pakistanis have been selected through seven entries in the third edition of the annual ‘30 Under 30’ Asia list for their achievements in the categories of entertainment and sports, enterprise technology, retail and e-commerce, social entrepreneurs and healthcare and science.

Here’s the list of nine Pakistanis featuring on the well-acclaimed list.

Momina Mustehsan

Momina Mustehsan is one of Pakistan’s biggest music stars, and fast becoming one of her country’s most high profile activists. After singing a duet with famed singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan that went viral, Mustehsan quickly earned an online following in the millions.

In the entertainment and sports category, Mustehsan, 26, is featured for using her fame and social media following to advocate for social causes important to her, including women’s rights, cyber bullying and mental health awareness. She was named one of BBC’S 100 Influential Women for 2017.

Asad Raza and Ibrahim Ali Shah

Asad Raza and Abrahim Ali Shah, both 23, featured on the list for their healthcare startup, Neurostic, which aims to provide low-cost and high quality wearable and implantable medical devices for the developing world. Neurostic also provides low-cost prosthetic services for amputees in the developing countries having little or no access to rehabilitation facilities.

Shaheer Niazi

Seventeen-year-old Muham­mad Shaheer Niazi;s work has appeared in the prestigious Royal Society Open Science Journal, hence he is featured on the list for this remarkable achievement.

Sadia Bashir

Sadia Bashir, 29, is featured in the enterprise technology category for co-founding PixelArt Games Academy. The academy’s mission is to bridge the gap between industry demand and education, by providing training in game design and production, game programming, digital art and animation.

According to Forbes, her programme tries to address the significant gender gap in the gaming industry by maintaining a minimum 33 per cent ratio of women, with the hope to inspire Pakistani women to dream bigger

Hamza Farrukh

Hamza Farrukh, 24, made it to the social entrepreneurs category, founded Bondh-e-Shams also known as The Solar Water Project. His project aims to tackle the problem of water scarcity in the most poorly connected areas of Pakistan.

Syed Faizan Hussain

Syed Faizan Hussain, 24, is a solution-driven social activist based in Karachi. He founded non-profit Perihelion Systems in 2013 to better the lives of many by using technology.

Adnan Shafi and Adeel Shafi

The list also featured siblings Adnan Shaffi, 28, and Adeel Shaffi, 29, who are in the retail and e-commerce group for making online phone shopping easier by founding PriceOye in 2015. PriceOye is a price comparison platform for electronics in second- and third-tier cities in Pakistan which uses data analytics to provide marketing information to retailers while finding the best deal for consumers. According to Forbes, their website has more than a million views a month.