Zaheen Machines, a startup that aims to make legacy homes more comfortable, automated and
energy efficient. Their main product is Jal Bhuj that reduces the gas consumption of the
common geyser.
Zia Imran, the CEO of Jal Bujh recently held a meeting with the Prime Minister’s IT sub Task
force to make recommendations to government on increasing IT exports and creating more
jobs. The meeting took place on Sunday 13 th January from 4pm to 7pm.
Overall, the aim behind these recommendations by the Zaheen Machine CEO was to to
promote IOT, hardware, electric cars, batteries, systems production, use and export. Industry
experts who are working on the above mentioned niches were also invited to join him at the
meeting.
Some of the topics that were discussed with task force include: What is coming in the way of
domestic manufacture of hardware? What policy changes need to be implemented? What
issues are you facing? What can be done in short term, medium term and long term to support
you? What can we do to establish next generation of hardware based industries (electric cars,
li-ion battereis) in Pakistan? What incentives we will need to provide to traditional players, for
example lead-acid battery manufacturers to convert over to invest in li-ion production locally.
How can we encourage traditional electric machinery (think electric fans, motors, and
transformers) to up the game by using electronic controls, IoT, AI and take them to next level?
What can we do to encourage our hardware manufactures to be more innovative instead of
just importing kits and assembling them?
