ANOTHER TALENTED PAKISTANI READY TO GO ABROAD!: ARTICLE BY PROF WAQAR HUSSAIN
ANOTHER
TALENTED PAKISTANI READY TO GO ABROAD !
BY
PROF WAQAR HUSSAIN
Human capital flight or Brain drain is
the large scale emigration of individual with technical skill or knowledge. A
total of 2,765,789 have proceeded abroad for employment opportunities
over the last 5 years; a statement released by the Ministry of Overseas
Pakistanis and Human Resource Development. In an earlier report, the said
Ministry disclosed that 5,873,539 Pakistanis have emigrated from
1981-2012, out of which a staggering 41,498 professional and technical workers
left in 2012 alone. The net result
is a brain drain that is leading to more and more Pakistanis lining up to leave
the county every day. At present, over 7 million Pakistani are
living outside the country. This trend is robbing the nation of the next crop
of engineers, doctors, scientist, and economists, etc and is alarmingly harmful
for the country. Human capital flight is not a new phenomenon, it had aged long
history and is now its seriousness has aggravated terrifyingly. For one reason
or the other, the people go abroad and only sufferer is our motherland. There
is a famous Punjabi maxim: “jehray khandan, aulad nu jawan kar kay,
susral day hawalay kar dandain nain ,oh khandan barbad ho janday nain.”
(God forefend).Families who nourish their young ones and then hand them over to
In-Law’s family, get ruined.”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah went to England
in 1930 and decided to settle there as Indian National Congress lost respect in
his eyes, the Muslim League was not vibrant as per his expectation and
provincial Muslim leaders were entangled in local politics. The plight of Muslim
leaders of Assam and Bengal were similarly dismal. He was deeply mortified in
this scenario as no one was serious about the Muslim cause. At this juncture,
Allam Iqbal was running the Muslim League affairs but in the absence of Quaid i
Azam, the death of Maulana Mohammad Ali Johar, departure of Abul kalam Azad and
Dr Ansari to the Congress, Sir Fazal Hussain was engaged in underground
politics and he himself was facing senility and sickness. In these
circumstances, it was not possible for him to run the business of Muslim
League. So, he wrote a comprehensive, convincing and crucial letter to Jinnah
and put in the picture, the entire episode of dismal situation and persuaded
him to return. Jinnah, a prudent, dauntless and sang-froid leader acceded to
his request and returned in 1934 and Allama Iqbal handed him over the reign of
Muslim League. Quaid e Azam unified all the factions of Muslim League and
gathered all the Muslims on a single platform. It was the turning point in the
history of Muslim of Sub Continent that leads to the creation of Pakistan.
Rafiuddin was a prominent UN of employee
since 1970. He worked on key posts of UN for almost three decades. Near his
retirement in 1999, he requested government of Pakistan that he is ready to
serve Pakistan foreign office voluntarily and desire to utilize 30 year of foreign
office experience for the benefit the country. His request was rejected because
we don’t need educated, experienced and trained person and that too willing to
work freely. That is how; we squandered services of a talented man of Pakistan.
Later, he was appointed advisor in UNDP on a handsome salary and then in UNIFEM
and then Secretary General Kofi Annan made him his special advisor in Iraq that
is the most coveted and important position after Secretary General of UN.
Dr Afzal Ur Rehman was called out by President
Ayub Khan through Dr Javed Iqbal to mould the constitution in the framework of the
Quran and the Sunnah. Dr Afzal Ur Rehman accepted the proposal and shifted to
Pakistan. He was made Chairman of Council of Islamic Ideology. When he had just
started working, local ulemma proclaimed a Fatwa against him. He was deeply
mortified and decided to quit the country.
Dr Abdul Salam joined Government
College in 1951. He was made coach of football team. He requested for a better
and appropriate job; he was made Warden. In a disappointment he left the
country in 1954. Imperial College London made him Head of the Department of
Theoretical Physics. Then Italian government honored him by establishing a scientific
laboratory on his name. Dr Salam’s major and notable achievements include the
Pati-Salam Model, magnetic photon, vector meson, Grand Unified Theory, work on super
symmetry and the most important electroweak theory for which he was awarded the
most prestigious the Nobel Prize in physics jointly with Sheldon Lee Glashow
and Steven Weinberg.
Dr. Abdul Kalam came to Pakistan from Netherland;
He wanted to get job in Atomic Energy Commission. He applied for the post but
was rejected being incompetent. In despondency, he went back to Netherland. When
Indians came to know about him, they invited him to come to India and gave job
in missile program. Later is history; he developed Indian Nuclear
Program………….. Missile Program………President of India………highest awards………40 PhD
degrees…….Indian hegemony…….counter reaction from Pakistan……
APJ Abdul Kalam, eminent scientist and
engineer, not only made India a nuclear power but also developed its missile
program in par with other world powers. He was made 11th president of India
from 2002-2007. He is often referred as the ‘Missile man of India’. Know his
popularity in India as a president; he is being called “People President”. He
was also awarded nation’s highest civilian Awards the Padam Bhushan and
then The Padma Vibhushan, the Bharat Ratna. He also forwarded a
project plan for establishing bio-implants. He also received honorary doctorate
degrees from 40 universities.
Dr Abdul Qadeer was working in
Dutch Urenco Plant. When he came to know about nuclear explosion of India, his
patriotic passion provoked and dragged him to Pakistan. After some
misunderstanding with establishment, he flew back. When Z.A. Bhutto came to
know the entire story, he contacted, convinced and persuaded him to come
back……… and the result of ‘his return’ is before us that the color Chagai hill
changed from black to white in 1998 with purity of success , faces of
Pakistani turned red with delight, facade of Indians turned pale
with dread and complexion of entire world Community turned purple with
anxiety; the features of Muslim world
turned green with friendship, fertility, fain, freedom, freshness,
fascination and faith; the entire globe behaved like a ‘chameleon’. Pakistan became the world’s 7th nuclear power and the first
nuclear weapons state in the Islamic World.
Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan is also known
as ‘Benefactor of Pakistan’. He is nuclear scientist, metallurgical engineer
and founder of HEU based Gas Centrifuge Uranium Enrichment Program. He also
founded Kahuta Research Laboratories in 1976. He also made major contributions
in molecular morphology, physical marten site and material Physics. He was
awarded Hilal-i-Imtiaz (1989) and Nishan-e-Imtiaz (1999),etc.
Dr. Aamir Ali is another promising
scientist. He did his PhD from the Punjab University in tissue culture
technique and then completed his post doctorate in Molecular Biology from USA. Then
he returned to Pakistan and is working as Assistant Professor in Biological
Sciences in The Sargodha University. Dr. Aamir Ali was offered healthy salary
to work in USA but he preferred petty paltry salary enriched with patriotism.
He joined Sargodha University on the instigation of Vice Chancellor of the said
university Dr. Akram Chauhdhry. In a short, he developed special specie of
Kinno (orange) which has no seed and high yield. He distributed 2500 plants to
farmers. This is a hybrid plant and there is special technique to extract
‘parent plant’ from it. Secondly, last year red rod disease of sugarcane
spoiled a large chunk of crop and thus reduced cane yield chillingly. Dr. Aamir
Ali had developed red-rod resistance specie of sugarcane. So, in future there
is no chance of red rod disease to spoil the cane crop; still further, it has
70% more sucrose which is an extra benefit and will increase the yield of sugar
(sucrose). This wonder is done by no other man but a son of our soil Dr. Aamir
Ali.
Now-a-days, he is working to prepare
sugarcane which doesn't cause diabetes. And soon 6 millions diabetic patients
in Pakistan will enjoy sweet taste again. He purchased his own PCR machine of
10 lacks Rs. Its operation, power back up, chemicals, etc, are all expensive.
But Dr. Aamir Ali is following Jonoon’s song: Hay jazba janoon tu himat na haar.
The function of PCR (Polymerize Chain
Reaction) machine is to produce multiple copies of single DNA. So, scientist
can extract gene from these DNA. These genes have specific code. Take gene of
disease resistance plant and lodge it on another plant making it resistance to
disease. So, PCR is an effective machine to fight against plant diseases.
But due to persistent load shedding,
lack of instruments, be short of admiration, scarcity of resources, non utilization
of product made_ in sum obstacles of all kinds, disappointments of all
varieties, problems of all categories have compelled Dr. Aamir to leave for USA.
Americans are waiting anxiously for his comeback. They are sure that one day he
will return, probably they are aware that we, Pakistani, are champion of frittering
away the abilities of talented people.
It is for the common people that now a
days, farmers in Pakistan and India are using hybrid seeds. It means that the
crop will grow but will not yield seed. Farmer has to buy its seed from the multi-national
companies by paying again and heavily. A few months ago, my friend Malik Asghar
Ali Nadeem (farmer) showed me a small pouch containing 1000 imported hybrid
seeds of cucumber. I asked, “How much is the cost?” He replied, “4000Rs”. I was maimed and whispered: “it means that one
seed costs Rs 4”.He supplemented that these are the cheap one as the rate of good
quality seed ranges from 9 to 10 Rs. Now days, our agricultural system is relying
heavily on hybrid seed for desire of high yield. These hybrid seeds are not
only costly but often unavailable at the point of need. India is also using
hybrid seed, but their government made a deal with multinational companies to
install seed plants in India and sale their seeds for 10 years. After that
these seed plants will be ours. It means, they prudently allowed Multi
Companies to have a business for only 10 years. And this period of 10 years is going
to be expired in 2014-2015.On the contrary, we didn’t make any such deal. So,
we will keep on paying high money to buy seeds. A person, like Dr. Aamir, who
had experimentally prepared hybrid seed and can generate parent plant from any
hybrid plant; is getting ready to fly, leaving behind our hapless farmer in the
doldrums.
Who can dare to stop him? I will just
tell him that agriculture sector plays a key role in our national economy as it
contributes 21.4% of GDP and employees 45% of country’s total labour force.
During 2012-2013, the agriculture sector grew by 3.3%.But the production of
cotton and rice declined by 4.2% and 10% respectively. We are using 40 pounds
of fertilizer per acre while Egypt is using 160 and Japan 400 lb so we are well
behind in use of fertilizer. We heavily rely on canal irrigation (75%) and
during 2012 kharif season (April to September), canal head withdrawals
stood at 57.7% million acre feet (MAF) showing decrease of 4% than the last year.
Pakistan is facing acute water shortage since 1992 when available water was
1700 m3 per capita per year. Now, it has fallen to just 1200m3.All
these shortages result in low agricultural production and eventually in
shortage of food. According to World Food Program 77 million people of Pakistan
are facing shortage of food .Astonishingly about 10 million people eat once a
day, about 140 million people spend their entire earning on buying food and
remaining population eat twice a day as we have no concept of three time meal,
which is evident from our proverb: “do waqt ki rooti”. So scarcity
of foodstuff has stretched its shoots on every side. It is the time you can
change the fortune of the country man as did Dr Younis for Bangladesh; you can
transform our agriculture and thus can change the proverb to: “teen waqt
ki rooti.”
Reference:
Wikipedia Encyclopedia History of Pakistan Sheikh Mohammad
Rafique
Zero point 2 of Javed Chaudhry
Reference:
Wikipedia Encyclopedia History of Pakistan Sheikh Mohammad
Rafique
Zero point 2 of Javed Chaudhry
Nice one.....!
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