Promo ---- Documentary Brain Drain [HQ]

hardly any country has suffered more from the 'brain drain' than has Pakistan. Nearly 3,500 (annual) graduates of Pakistan's medical colleges are jobless; most go abroad.those that consider flight of highly skilled human resource of the country as source of remittance fail to realise that absence of highly qualified doctors, engineers and scientists is playing havoc with the long-term economic growth of the country. He said even the low skilled labour force of the country should be nurtured to improve their skills and play their role in the local economy.all economists agree that every doctor who leaves a poor nation leaves a hole that cannot be filled. That creates enormous problems for the source country and the educational and health leaders in the country who are attempting to provide healers, he added. He said no nation can achieve long-term economic growth by exporting human resource.according to official estimates of Pakistan's Overseas Employment Corporation, close to 36,000 professionals, including doctors, engineers and teachers, have migrated to other countries in the last 30 years. Interestingly, this number is indicative of only a small proportion of actual migration, since the majority of emigrants do not register. He said his research indicates that the number in recent years has increased around 45,000.though the danger of the brain drain to Pakistan is clear, a large part of the problem is that there are not enough opportunities offered to the country's highly skilled labour for contribution and advancement opportunities. Educated unemployment is very high and salary levels for skilled workers (relative to unskilled workers) are often kept forcibly low by governments to maintain an egalitarian income policy.the salaries of highly skilled workforce in developed world is 30-40 times higher than in Pakistan but money is not the only reason for many who opt to go abroad.highly skilled software engineers are usually answerable to the bosses that have no knowledge about IT and they ridicule the computerised solutions that the engineer presents before them.the government should impart on job training to farmers, welders and plumbers about their profession so that they could increase productivity and ensure a progressively better future for them.According to BBC report on November 17, 2000, Gallup-Pakistan says more than two-thirds of Pakistan's adult population wants to go abroad. This is a brain drain with pain. There is another brain drain with sham. This is the kind of brain drain, where the brains leaving the country do not want to go abroad. Instead they are forced to leave. Prominent scholar and development specialist, Mr. Abid Ullah Jan and many others before him are not like the thousands upon thousands Pakistanis who have clogged the border between Canada and America. These are exceptions with exceptional minds and capabilities. The thousands leaving US for Canada -- for whom our Foreign Minister has run from pillar to post -- are not bringing any bad name to Pakistan, nor are they a brain drain because they are already abroad.

But the great minds who impose exile upon themselves for protection of their families against the excesses of Pakistani regime is a shame for all of us and that amounts to real brain drain. They don't leave the country in search of better prospects, as the BBC report suggests. They do not run from personal taxes, as one of the Dawn report suggests (17 April, 2002). They leave the country because our government cannot absorb the deep truths, so powerfully spoken by some individuals.

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