KARACHI: An inspirational female cab driver, Haya Faisal is providing pick and drop services for women in Karachi.
Haya Faisal is an inspirational female cab driver providing pick and drop services for women and families in Karachi. She revealed her life story in an interview with MM News.
According to Haya, she was married at 17 years of age and lived a good life with her husband in Karachi. She had four daughters and everything seemed to be running smoothly in her life until one day when her husband came home and said that he had lost his job.
He told Haya that he would go to Lahore and look for a new job. She agreed and then he left. Everything came crumbling down on Haya when she tried to contact her husband after his departure, he didn’t reply neither did he ever come back home.
Haya waited for 10 months in hopes that her husband would return. However, poverty made her life difficult. This forced her to take charge of running the house and raising her daughters. She had to step out of the house and do something.
She sought out help from her friends and family and one of her cousins helped her and bought her a car. Haya started renting this car to people and earning from it. She said that her family had supported her massively.
The woman said she does not drive only to fulfill her family’s household expenses. She works as a cab driver to illustrate to her children that it’s not easy to earn money in life. Haya also wants to show them the importance of perseverance and persistence in life.
During the testing times, many people tried to cheat her, after suffering for a long time she decided to learn to drive and started a pick and drop service. This became a huge success. Finally, Haya started her own pick and drop service in the metropolis only for women.
She further said that what she has learned in a few weeks as a cab driver, her whole married life of more than a decade was not able to teach that. Haya now wants her children to be highly educated.
It is evident that Haya Faisal is indeed an inspiration for women in Pakistan. In a male-dominated society like Pakistan, women are frequently discriminated against when they enter the fields to support their families and household needs.
No matter how skilled and confident they are, there comes a point where they get criticism from narrow minds and stereotype people. However, things have improved drastically in Pakistan as Haya Faisal became a female cab driver for the sake of supporting her family.
