Thought Behind Things

Be part of our community by joining our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtbehindthings In conversation with Mirza Abeer, CEO at ASAP- Association for Smoking Alternatives in Pakistan, this episode explores smoking alternatives that can used. Was Abeer a smoker? How he came up with the idea of ASAP. What are the different alternatives available for the smokers? Is vaping safer...

Be part of our community by joining our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtbehindthings In conversation with Saad Munawar, the first person to traverse all 3 highest mountain ranges in the world covering 665km in 23 days, this episode explores the incident of Ali Sadpara and mountaineering as a sport. How he got into this sport. What his relationship with Ali Sadpara was like?...

Be part of our community by joining our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtbehindthings In conversation with Asim Ismail Jafrani, chairman Al-Wasila Trust, this episode explores how charity can be done in multiple ways. How long he has been doing his charity work? What motivated him? How Al-Wasila is impacting lives? What are his other ventures i.e., ‘Rehan Sehan’, ‘Powerbox’,...

Be part of our community by joining our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtbehindthings In conversation with Laeeq Ahmad, this episode explores investments in stocks. Why investments are important and necessary? How to define which stock to invest in. What are the fundamentals to consider before investing? What areas of investments are Sharia Complaint? Why Laeeq invested in st...

Be part of our community by joining our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtbehindthings In conversation with Professor Ahsan Malik, this episode explores scope of engineering in the coming future. When and why, he got into teaching engineering? What are the major opportunities for hardware engineering? What are the opportunities of it in developing nations? Has student’s mental...

Be part of our community by joining our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtbehindthings In conversation with Hisham Sarwar, this episode explores his journey and freelancing. When he started? How has he started? How long he has been self-employed? How he became mainstream with Digi skills? Importance of client retention. Does freelancing has a future? What’s the next plan for f...

Be part of our community by joining our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtbehindthings In conversation with Fasieh Mehta, this episode explores how to start a successful business. What’s the entrepreneurship environment in Pakistan? What is seed level funding? What’s the prospect of a young graduate stepping into startups? How buy in business model works? What makes a good sta...

Be part of our community by joining our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtbehindthings In conversation with Uloomi Kareem Shaheen, this episode explores MMA fighting. How Uloomi developed his interest? When he started fighting professionally? Does this sport have monetary benefits? Was he a troubled child? Is there any correlation between fighting and letting out anger? Will t...

Be part of our community by joining our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtbehindthings In conversation with Arslan Ash, this episode explores his journey and e-sports industry in Pakistan. How has he got into gaming? When he started playing? Why wasn’t arcade culture supported? How he started playing nationally? How old he was when he won nationals? How did internationally e-g...

Be part of our community by joining our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtbehindthings In conversation with Farhat Hussein, this episode explores the tales of 1971 from a civilian’s perspective. What has he experienced during 1971 war? What happened during 1971? How long he had to live in India? How Indian warden treated them? Did his family know about his whereabouts? What he...

Be part of our community by joining our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtbehindthings In conversation with Omer Pervez Khan, this episode investments deeply. What investment is? What ROI and inflation is? What are the good areas of investment? How to diversify money? Does not saving money impacts economy? Tune in to know more on cash printing, bitcoin, and the coming good, ok...

Be part of our community by joining our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtbehindthings In conversation with Meenah Tariq, this episode explores startups and venture capitalism. How she ends up in entrepreneurship and VC. How investment works in startups? What is the buy in for her hedge fund? What is fit product marketing and why it is important. Do we have strong busines...

Be part of our community by joining our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtbehindthings In conversation with Abdullah Khattak, this episode explores his journey. How he started. What happened to his previous channel? Is there any correlation between blogging and influencers with medical background? How he sees YouTube industry of Pakistan? What were his thought behind his educa...

Be part of our community by joining our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtbehindthings In conversation with Qazi Saleem, this episode explores foreign services and relations of Pakistan. Who Qazi Saleem is? When has he joined foreign services? What life of a foreign officer is like? Were Pakistan’s historical foreign decisions right at the time? How western policy lens can’t b...

Be part of our community by joining our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtbehindthings Celebrating our FIRST FIFTY episodes with you. Thank you so much for all the love you have shown us, it means the world to us. In conversation with Khayyam Sajid, this episode explores his journey. How he started. Why he chose to work behind the camera. What was his environment like when he...

Be part of our community by joining our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtbehindthings In conversation with Khizer Khan, this episode explores his journey. How and when he started social commentary? When has he moved back to Pakistan? What his experience has been liked? Is GenZ smarter? What are his thoughts on online exams and student’s activism around it? What is the future...

Be part of our community by joining our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtbehindthings In conversation with Khalilullah Khan, this episode explores analytics of freelancing. How his journey started? How target demographics works? How has he started YouTube? What kind of content he created initially? What was his breakout moment? What SEO is and how it works? What power local l...

Be part of our community by joining our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtbehindthings In conversation with Umair Qureshi, this episode explores education system of Pakistan. What is ‘thinking school organization’? How it is different? What is the primary purpose of education? Do we need higher education? What is vocational training? Why we lack in it in Pakistan? What is the...

Be part of our community by joining our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtbehindthings In conversation with Sayem Ali, this episode explores economy of Pakistan. What Sayem does? How has his journey been like? Where is Pakistan’s economy headed? What financial issues current government had to faced? How the current pandemic affect world’s economy? What are our focus areas? Why...

Be part of our community by joining our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtbehindthings In conversation with Siddique Jaan, this episode explores Siddique Jaan’s journey from TV reporting to YouTube reporting. What his experience in journalism has been like? How and when he started? Why has he shifted to YouTube? What he thinks about news channels not having enough revenues? Wi...

Be part of our community by joining our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtbehindthings In conversation with Ali Ilyas, this episode explores toxic positivity. What toxic positivity is? How to contextualize it? What role social media play in it. How we deal with it. Why we are taught to deal with emotions, especially negative emotions? Tune in to know more on how our social and...

Be part of our community by joining our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtbehindthings In conversation with Azad Chaiwala, this episode first explores some disagreements people have with Azad Chaiwala. Then later move on to problem solving on educational side of the things. Can everyone be a businessman? Why Azad Chaiwala get views? What are his views on women working? Do we l...

In conversation with Ali Ilyas, this episode explores with heartbreak and loss. Have we all experienced heartbreaks? How to deal with a breakup? How sudden end to a long relationship can make you think that your whole life was lie. How to restart or reimagine your life after it? How productivity culture can be toxic. Tune in to know more on love, loss, and death! Follow us on Instagram: • https://...

Be part of our community by joining our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtbehindthings In conversation with Muaz Ali Qureshi, this episode explores his journey. How Muaz started. How he got into creative industry. What was his breakthrough point? How he managed his university & work. What his parents do? Besides wedding, what else does Muaz cover? What was his vision while...

Be part of our community by joining our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtbehindthings In conversation with Shaheera Jalil Albasit, this episode explores representation of youth by youth. What Shaheera has been up to/ The scale of grass root level activism in Pakistan. Is role of politics more in America than here? Why we don’t have young people in politics. What are their bar...