How to rebuild Pakistan into a great nation and great society

[SaeedinPakistan]

Re: How to rebuild Pakistan into a great nation and great society

@Southie

Not clear to me why “foreign educated” folks of Pak origin should have “attractive salary and positions” sett aside. ( opinion from an outsider)

Not clear to me either. If the foreign educated folk are really smart they’ll think of ways to start ( or improve ) businesses on their own. I don’t think anyone who needs these kind of quotas has any potential to help Pakistan. Quotas never work, I’ve always despised them and I’ll continue to hate them no matter who benefits from them.

@Southie

^ just as a general priniciple - no special security or arrangements need be given for foreign educated folks. That would be a slap in the face of locally educated folks. Compensation should be commensurate with qualification, IMO.

True that. This would destroy the morale of locally educated youths and drive further brain drain. People will start leaving Pakistan in even greater numbers to get the coveted Foreign Education and we all know how many of them come back.

@stark

Peace Southie,

Pakistan since the 70s has been the victim of a huge amount of brain drain. Many capable individuals who could leave via scholarships/visas etc took that ticket and live comfortable lives, much different from what they would in pakistan. This is the case even today. Creating attractive positions for them would maybe lure a few patriotic back. There are no international standard universities in pakistan as of yet. That will hopefully change in the next 100 years but in order for that to happen you have to bring those with degrees from such institutions and having international qualifications back to teach and work in pakistan. I agree the compensation should be dependent on qualifications, but the vast majority of the time, the person with a degree from a big university/international experience will be more qualified than the individual coming from Pakistan. It is unfair, but it is true.

And how are they going to fix Pakistan again. Pakistan needs more businesses, more economic activity and no college professor is going to do that for Pakistan. We need people who can see the potential for business in Pakistan. Doesn’t matter if they’re foreign or local born, all that matters is that they improve Pakistan, while making a buck for themselves.

College professors from abroad wouldn’t stick here anyway, because they’d get tired of the puny research grants people over here work with.