Don't under estimate your own people. Pakistani people are industrious, innovative and entrepreneurial - what they lack is an environment where it is encouraged.
My family is from the Mirpur region of AJK, I honestly think it's the laziest if not one of the laziest regions of people in the world. Most of the people have family abroad, most of the people have nice homes built with expat money, cars and motorbikes bought with expat money, we have lots of retail and restaurants and leisure all funded by pounds, euros, Riyals and Dhirams. My cousins were some of the most lazy people i met - even the ones in the village.
They wore white clothes every day, spent all day drinking tea in the bazaar, getting upto mischief, playing sports, cricket tournaments etc. They paid other people to farm the land, they bought milk rather than have their own buffalo despite having loads of land. These same guys and thousands like them suddenly work 16 hour days 7 days a week in the UK, UAE, Europe etc.
Why?
1. Culture of work - nobody is a child here, everyone is expected to work, even in Pakistani families.
2. Job opportunity.
3. Culture of self employment/going into business. Thanks to the de-industrialisation of the UK, our community who used to be factory workers were forced into working for themselves. Many are taxi drivers or takeaway owners, but it created a culture where people try to make it thier own way.
I am an IT professional, nearly everyone i know has a side hustle, even i do.
Yes there are the forever lazy - but they are rare. Give our people opportunity, incentivize them to work, and they excel. If you know you have a salkari naukri for life - who wants to work? Where is the need?
