Zuha Siddiqui
Labor and Tech Reporting Fellow at Rest of World
Journalist at Freelance
Tech and climate reporter in South Asia. Words: @restofworld, @WIRED, @foreignpolicy, more. @GloJo_NYU @nyukevo alum. Send me tips! [email protected]
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Dec 16, 2024 |
restofworld.org | Zuha Siddiqui |Ananya Bhattacharya
The day mass transit startup Swvl announced its decision to downsize operations in Pakistan in June 2022, its country general manager Maha Shahzad fully grasped the dire circumstances that female commuters faced. Shahzad’s LinkedIn inbox flooded with messages from women asking how they would get to work the next day. Parents were worried about their daughters. “I had messages from fathers asking me point-blank, ‘How do I get my girls to school tomorrow?’” Shahzad told Rest of World.
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Dec 9, 2024 |
thestar.com.my | Zuha Siddiqui
KARACHI: A protest by thousands in Pakistan’s capital last month demanding the release of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan triggered the arrest of hundreds, but also, digital rights campaigners say, nationwide Internet outages and slow-downs. Pakistan has a record of curbing online access in response to political turmoil, banning social media sites or simply temporarily shutting down the Internet altogether.
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Dec 6, 2024 |
context.news | Zuha Siddiqui
What’s the context?
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Sep 22, 2024 |
scroll.in | Zuha Siddiqui
This article was originally published in Rest of World, which covers technology’s impact outside the West. When Mirza Khurram Shahzad, 58, lost his job as an air conditioning engineer in Islamabad five years ago, he sat at home for five months, sending out his resume in the hope of finding a new job. When he heard nothing back, he turned to ride hailing. “I realised that driving is also a skill, and I needed money, so I became a Careem driver,” he told Rest of World.
How fare-bidding apps, economic woes drove Careem to the margins of Pakistan’s ride-hailing business
Aug 3, 2024 |
scroll.in | Zuha Siddiqui
This article was originally published in Rest of World, which covers technology’s impact outside the West. In 2022, when Careem announced that its app had completed its billionth ride, Pakistan was the company’s top market. Nearly 30% of the billion Careem rides had come from Pakistan, where the app was synonymous with ride-hailing.
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