Every year, hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis look for jobs in UAE for Pakistanis — and for good reason. The UAE pays in dirhams, offers tax-free salaries, and is only a three-hour flight from Lahore or Karachi. But the same dream is also the reason so many people get cheated. A friend of mine from … Read more
Last winter, a friend in Lahore showed me his phone with a grin I will not forget. He runs a small Telegram channel that shares daily job alerts for government jobs in Punjab, and it had just crossed 12,000 subscribers. That month, he told me, he had earned Rs. 18,500 from paid posts and a … Read more
The first time I sat outside a test centre in Peshawar, waiting for a friend who was appearing for a PST test, I learned more about KP teacher test preparation Pakistan than any book had taught me. Candidates came out in two very different moods. Some were smiling because the paper had matched the syllabus … Read more
When my cousin in Gujranwala showed me his EPS-TOPIK result on his phone last year, I understood why South Korea has become the first choice for so many Pakistani workers. He had spent eight months studying Korean after his shift at a textile mill, and he had passed on his second attempt. He is not … Read more
The first time I watched someone in Pakistan actually earn from WhatsApp, it was not a guru with a course to sell. It was a woman in Faisalabad who stitched lawn suits in her front room. She posted a photo of a new design in her WhatsApp Status at 9 in the morning, and by … Read more
When my cousin in Lahore first said he wanted to work in Spain, his family laughed. Spain, they said, was for holidays, not for jobs — and certainly not for a Pakistani electrician with no Spanish and no relatives in Europe. Two years later he was wiring apartments in Valencia, sending money home through a … Read more
A friend of mine from Larkana spent two years preparing for the SPSC lecturer test the way most people do: he bought every book a shopkeeper in Hyderabad recommended, joined a WhatsApp group that forwarded 400 MCQs a day, and revised nothing properly. He failed by six marks. The next year he changed only one … Read more
If you are a student in Lahore, a fresh graduate in Karachi, or a developer in Islamabad wondering whether software engineering is still a good career in Pakistan, the short answer is yes, but the market has changed. Employers no longer hire on the basis of a degree alone. They hire people who can build, … Read more
Every year, thousands of graduates across Punjab dream of becoming a lecturer in a government college, and the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) is the gatekeeper. The written test is competitive, the syllabus is broad, and the difference between selection and rejection is often not intelligence but preparation strategy. This guide explains the PPSC lecturer … Read more
If you are sitting in Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad or a smaller town in Pakistan and wondering whether a move to the Netherlands is realistic, the honest answer is yes, but only with the right route, the right skills and a lot of patience with paperwork. The Netherlands is not a country that hands out work … Read more