Pakistani Start-Up Preserves a Disappearing Craft
From the Blog sonyarehman *By Sonya Rehman* Waqas Ali and Sidra Qasim, two young Pakistani entrepreneurs, are on a mission to preserve the art and craft of handmade leather shoes through their start-up, Markhor. A Persian word meaning ‘snake-eater,’ Markhor is also the name of an endangered wild goat – Pakistan’s national animal. [image: Photo: Markhor] Photo: Markhor In 2010, Waqas Ali was sitting in the local village council in his village in Okara, Pakistan, when he overheard men talking about Facebook being banned in Pakistan because of a certain, blasphemous Facebook page (“Post Drawings of the Prophet Mohammad Day”). “They were saying the website [Facebook] was anti-Islamic,” Ali states. We’re sitting in a small office in Lahore’s Arfa Software Technology Park where inspiring start-ups (like Marpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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