Brain Drain: Highly Educated & Top Pakistanis Leave Country | Accelerated 3 Times to go abroad | Pakistan's brightest leaving the country

[Goritoes]

can we blame them?

 

[nahtanbob]

Indians abroad support each other and massively recruit their countrymen into MNC's whereas Pakistanis are divided by ethnicities abroad and go out of their way to pull each other's legs. Indian executives/CEO's are known to offshore work to India, whole production lines have been moved to India on the whims of Indian origin CEO's.

However, when Pakistanis try to do the same i.e. off shore production to Pakistan they are rebuffed by establishment that eschews exports and is in love with Imports. I have a personal experience that attests to this mindset of the powers that be in Pakistan.

No Pakistani American or other CEO will touch Pakistan with a 10 foot pole unless Pakistan cleans up things

 

[Signalian]

Brain Drain of Pakistan: Highly Educated & Top Pakistanis leave Country | Leaving Pakistan accelerated three times | Pakistan's brightest leaving the country

Lack of Senior Management and Senior citizens dislike towards promoting brightest Pakistanis on top positions, which they feel threatened. Over 60s Pakistanis do not let talented people from age 20 to 55 to come to top positions in all types of companies and institutes in Pakistan.

Brain drain: Thousands of highly educated professionals leave Pakistan​

Continuous political unrest, nepotism, army interference and deepening economic difficulties have been main reasons

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Thousands of highly educated and professional persons have been forced to leave Pakistan due to the country’s continuous political unrest and deepening economic difficulties.

Pakistan is in danger of losing its productive human capital as progressively intelligent and skilled people are saying goodbye and never paying heed to return to their own country. The term brain drain refers to the departure of people with the highest levels of education, experience and professionals in the quest for higher income, better living standards, access to vanguard technology, and more stable socio-economic-political environments in various parts of the world. Additionally, it has adverse effects on the origin country inclusive of all sectors either education, health systems, or economy.

Brain drain is triggered by globalization, and transnational corporations (TNCs) and often favors the economies that use these people to fill skill shortages. The central aim of this article is to explore the reasons for the departure of highly skilled and talented people from Pakistan. Due to its multisectoral impacts, this is a crucial issue for future investors and policymakers.

According to the document of the Bureau of Immigration, this year alone saw a 300 percent spike in the country’s brain drain with as many as 765,000 people leaving Pakistan for a better life overseas.

Thousands of highly educated and professional persons have been forced to leave Pakistan due to the country’s continuous political unrest and deepening economic difficulties.

According to the document of the Bureau of Immigration, this year alone saw a 300 percent spike in the country’s brain drain with as many as 765,000 people leaving Pakistan for a better life overseas.


92,000 highly educated individuals including physicians, engineers, information technology specialists and accountants were also included in this year’s report. The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia received the majority of them.

Pakistan has lost 7,000 engineers, 25,000 physicians, 1,600 nurses, 2,000 computer professionals, 6,500 accountants, 2,600 agricultural experts and 9,00 teachers due to this brain drain this year.

Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, Malaysia, China, Japan, Turkey, Sudan, Romania, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Greece and Italy were chosen by Pakistani specialists this year for the prospects over these countries.

The results have shown that approximately 40,000 kids had travelled to Europe and other Asian nations while over 730,000 of the youth had gone to the Gulf States. The statistics have indicated that 470,000 Pakistanis left for Saudi Arabia for work followed by 119,000 for the United Arab Emirates, 77,000 for Oman, 51,634 for Qatar and 2,000 for Kuwait.

A dangerous situation for Pakistan is coming

We have heard it often enough at dinner tables and formal discussions about Pakistan’s youth and one issue is brought up repeatedly – Pakistan’s brain drain. With 63% of this 220 million people country under the age of 30, the brain drain represents a significant proportion of the population and their resentment to leave Pakistan which in turn mirrors a deeply flawed system where Pakistan is unable to retain and utilize its best talent.

While there may be different reasons for the youth to reach its full potential in Pakistan, some of which include lack of opportunity, tough circumstances, an unforgiving environment or unsupportive parents. Looking at the numbers, around nine million Pakistanis currently work abroad which includes both skilled and unskilled labour as well as students going abroad for their undergrad or graduate studies. Thus, it is not surprising when we hear the remark, Pakistan may reh kar kiya karo gay [What will you do if you remain in Pakistan]. These remarks are a sobering reminder of the deep resentment and mistrust of the opportunities in ones homeland, in fact, if Pakistan were able to utilize its best talent it could become an industrial powerhouse in the area and help with some other deep seated issues such as the balance of payment and the import-export issues. While the recent investment of two major companies namely, Kliner Perkins and Nestle, are promising signs of a hopeful future as well as the Serie A funding secured by young Pakistani college graduates, it still goes a long way towards addressing the issues that would (partially) stop the brain drain.

Brain drain: Thousands of highly educated professionals leave Pakistan

Thousands of highly educated and professional persons have been forced to leave Pakistan due to the country’s continuous political unrest and deepening economic difficulties. According to the document of the Bureau of Immigration, this year alone saw a 300 percent spike in the country’s brain...

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Been mentioning this factor for a long time, but the members here want Army Generals and their wards to stop leaving Pakistan like they want to work in companies where retired Army officers are posted as directors and DG's, completely ignoring that the cream of Pakistan usually are university level graduates and experienced entry to mid level career professionals.

Bajwa & Establishment really destroyed the country this time.

I don't label Bajwa as traitor as many people would. I label him as a very Low IQ person. He in a bid to please the americans and mend the ties with americans went really far and beyond. He wanted to do that even at the expense of our relations with China. The guy never understood that no matter what he do, he can never undo the kind of influence and common objectives today US has with India. We are never going into their camp again and we never should.

True justice will happen, if establishment pays for all the mess it created and destruction of economy. But sadly people are paying for their dumb decisions.

Lol, sure mate, Army was ruling Pakistan even during PPP tenure after Musharraf left. You are just another victim of media brain washing.

Listen to Pakistanis leaving in Pakistan in the golden age of democracy and how the PM said," Who is stopping them ?".

The title isn't to my liking so ignore the title.

 

[Signalian]

Further brain drain, removing any competent people left in the country..

Another Bajwa's and co masterstroke,,

These 'Grand Strategizers' have been voluntarily waterboarding Pakistan since the first General Usurper Ayub robbed us of our sovereignty, which was fought for centuries..

What more will it take for the awam to surround GHQ, and trial these treacherous swines for high treason.. ??? its been 70+ years in the making, these lowly scum chowkidars should be finally be put in their place... Jinnah warned us, yet it fell it deaf ears..

Yup, that is it, you got it, Pakistan was a utopia a few years ago

No Pakistanis left Pakistan during RS era or in the democratic era of 90's. They just left Pakistan since 2016 and after 2022 now they want to leave in massive throngs since Bajwa had retired.

Salute to your logic

 

[WarKa DaNG]

Pakistanis diaspora need to support new Pakistani immigrants, my cousin is in Austrailia and came back for holidays, was telling us that if an indian come to Austrailia the whole indian community support them by buying a car, looking for a job and a place for living but if a Pakistani comes if he has any relatives or friend good for him but if not then he is left on mercy of God

 

[Maula Jatt]

Pakistanis diaspora need to support new Pakistani immigrants, my cousin is in Austrailia and came back for holidays, was telling us that if an indian come to Austrailia the whole indian community support them by buying a car, looking for a job and a place for living but if a Pakistani comes if he has any relatives or friend good for him but if not then he is left on mercy of God

I recommend going to local mosques etc, that's our cammunity center and 7 out of 10 times people genuinely try to help you out

That's what my brother did when he moved to a different state, it worked for him hopefully it works for your cousin too- mosque people were friendly and its usually more often than not ran by Pakistanis

 

[Olympus81]

I’ll share an anecdote.

During the times of British colonialism, the Brits took over a small town in the subcontinent. Seeing the need to raise revenues, the Brits started charging toll from villagers crossing the bridge. The villagers duly complied. Few months after, the Brits seeing noone complain, raised toll even further, and the villagers duly complied.

The Brits then, started slapping each villager on top of the high toll.

The next day the villagers complained, requesting the Brits to add more resources to collect toll and slap the villagers as the queue was getting longer.

This anecdote, in a nutshell, defines a sh!thole this subcontinent is.

 

[DabbuSardar]

Its a natural state of things, smart people figure nationalism is for fools.

Patriotism is the Last Refuge of the Scoundrel’- true words!

 

[FuturePAF]

Also what I’ve been told is different car insurance companies have different tiers of liability insurance. The Cheapest has a cap to how much they will cover but if you damage the other person to the point that they exceed the cap then the other persons insurance WILL and can go after your homes or anything else you own of worth before they cover the difference.

I’m not sure about the rest of country, but in New York City it’s basically either “liability coverage” (minimal coverage) or full coverage. Better to pay for full coverage if you value your life, earnings, or potential future earnings.

I’ll share an anecdote.

During the times of British colonialism, the Brits took over a small town in the subcontinent. Seeing the need to raise revenues, the Brits started charging toll from villagers crossing the bridge. The villagers duly complied. Few months after, the Brits seeing noone complain, raised toll even further, and the villagers duly complied.

The Brits then, started slapping each villager on top of the high toll.

The next day the villagers complained, requesting the Brits to add more resources to collect toll and slap the villagers as the queue was getting longer.

This anecdote, in a nutshell, defines a sh!thole this subcontinent is.

Also shows what happens when there is the lack of a strong local state to prevent these interlopers from robbing the locals. Foreign countries and foreign companies are the same these days. We have to remember the British came as a company, when they first came to the subcontinent, and on the way out the door they caused the genocide in Bengal as the result a deliberate policy, similar to the potato famine in Ireland a century earlier.

 

[Dalit]

Another one speaks up who recently went to NL!! A political circus being created by people with inside deals and other relationships to damage a country for power greed! Pakistani people aren't the one's sitting outside making $$ and Pounds, these are the people sitting INSIDE Pakistan going through this rough patch that no other but Mr. Khan brought to our doorsteps.

I was born here you fool. I didn't move to NL.

Educated Pakistanis are leaving because they don't trust Bajwa army and PDM donkeys.

 

[AZ1]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1603342151802388480

 

[HAIDER]

I recommend going to local mosques etc, that's our cammunity center and 7 out of 10 times people genuinely try to help you out

That's what my brother did when he moved to a different state, it worked for him hopefully it works for your cousin too- mosque people were friendly and its usually more often than not ran by Pakistanis

Agreed local muslim community centers play an excellent role majority of cases.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1603342151802388480

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Dude if we don t send money to Pakistan. Lots of families won t be able to send their kids to local colleges. Survival is extremely tough ....

 

[Catalystic]

The problem is when you’re not churning up new educated professionals after those professionals leave……if u had steady new graduates coming in snd getting trained and doing work then its not an issue

Professionals leave, and u got no good brains coming after - thats the problem

 

[lastofthepatriots]

It’s simple. When you let people from overseas come into power and loot the country, the common man no longer wants to get swindled.

They can counting being the emperors, but it will be of nothing.

 

[MastanKhan]

Is this a new phenomenon or traditional 'culture'?

Hi,

It is indeed ingrained in culture.