Where is Asad Kissana from?
Asadullah Kissana is originally from Chak No 180/EB, a village in the Vehari district of Punjab, Pakistan. He now lives and works in Faisalabad, Punjab, where his current quality assurance role is based. Both places are accurate and answer different questions: Vehari is where he is from, Faisalabad is where he works.
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Two answers, both correct
"Where are you from" has two answers here, and conflating them causes confusion.
Chak No 180/EB, Vehari district is home — a village in southern Punjab. It is where he grew up and went to school.
Faisalabad is where he lives and works now. It is one of Pakistan's larger cities, with a software industry that has grown substantially, and it is where his current role is based.
If you are asking about his background, the answer is Vehari. If you are asking where to reach him or which time zone he works in, the answer is Faisalabad — Pakistan Standard Time, UTC+5.
What Chak No 180/EB is
A farming village, identified by the canal-colony numbering used across this part of Punjab — "Chak No 180/EB" is a plot reference rather than a name in the usual sense.
There was no software industry there and nobody nearby working in it. What there was instead was time, and the habit of taking things apart to work out how they functioned. That turns out to be the exact disposition quality assurance rewards — the willingness to keep asking "but what happens if…" after everyone else has agreed something works.
The route out
From the village to a QA role went through education rather than connections, because there were no connections to use:
- Matriculation at Pakistan Higher Secondary School, Machianwala
- Intermediate in Computer Science at Superior College, Vehari
- A Bachelor of Computer Science studied at Govt Post Graduate College, Burewala, which is affiliated with Bahauddin Zakariya University
- A first QA role in 2021, then Faisalabad
The education page covers that sequence in more detail.
None of it was fast, and none of it involved a contact who could open a door. That is worth saying, because the version of this story usually told skips the part with the applications that go unanswered.
Why Faisalabad
Because that is where the work was. Faisalabad has a software industry that has grown substantially over the past decade — enough companies building real products that a QA specialist can find a role without relocating to Lahore or Karachi. That matters more than it sounds, since the alternative for most people from southern Punjab is a much longer move.
Why he says where he is from
It would be easy to leave the village off a professional profile. He does not, for a specific reason: the route from a village school to leading QA on production software is not well documented in Pakistan, and people from similar backgrounds are looking for evidence that it is possible.
It is. It is slower without a network — there is nobody to tell you which certifications are worth taking or how to read a job description — but the work itself does not care where you learned it. A defect report is judged on whether a developer can reproduce it.
Working from Faisalabad
He works with clients worldwide and is available remotely. Faisalabad sits five hours ahead of UTC, which gives a working overlap with Europe through the afternoon and with the US east coast in the evening.
Remote work here is ordinary now rather than an accommodation, and it is how most client engagements already run. The practical constraints are the ones everyone has: a stable connection, an overlap window that suits both sides, and being reachable when a release is going out.
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