Hakeem, operated by Walee Financial Services, has announced a partnership with PNY Group under the KhudMukhtar Khatoon initiative, aimed at strengthening the support system available to women entrepreneurs across Pakistan. The collaboration reflects a shared focus between the two organisations on connecting learning with the practical resources women founders need to build and grow sustainable businesses.
According to Hakeem, every entrepreneurial journey reaches a point where knowledge alone is not enough, with progress depending on having the right support at the right time. This framing positions the partnership as addressing a specific gap many women entrepreneurs encounter, where access to business education or training does not always translate into the practical resources or financial support needed to actually scale a venture.
The KhudMukhtar Khatoon initiative appears to be a programme specifically focused on economic empowerment for women, with the name itself, translating roughly to independent or self-reliant woman, reflecting its underlying mission. By partnering with PNY Group under this initiative, Hakeem is positioning its financial services offerings as a complementary resource to whatever educational or training components the KhudMukhtar Khatoon programme already provides.
Hakeem framed the collaboration as being about more than simply expanding access, describing the partnership as part of creating an ecosystem where ambition has a clearer path to becoming enterprise. This language suggests the partnership is intended to address multiple points along a woman entrepreneur’s journey, rather than providing a single, isolated service or resource.
The partnership adds to a broader pattern of financial services companies and technology platforms in Pakistan increasingly focusing on women entrepreneurs as a distinct and growing market segment, following similar recent initiatives such as WISE Lab’s collaboration with Pakistan Single Window’s Khadijah Programme. Hakeem’s continued positioning within this space reflects growing recognition across Pakistan’s financial technology sector of the specific barriers women founders face in accessing both capital and structured business support.
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