Govt to waive off Rs40.2m visa fees of Chinese workers

[war&peace]

Pakistan has lots of skilled labour, it is just skilled in wrong/outdated/obsolete trades, and the reason for this is our "general local economic structure" which provides the relevant jobs for these skilled workers in obsolete trades. The change has to come from the top where a "new modern local economic structure" is installed according to 21st century manufacturing and logistic practices which will then force the change the trade of expertise of the existing and new skilled workers in that new economic model.

May be you are right sir but this had to be done by the previous govt. It takes years and decades before you can have sufficient and well skilled labor but previous govt of PPP and PMLn both sabotaged the education system in general and vocational training in particular. Dr Atta-ur-Rehman had made excellent plans to this end by inviting top universities in Pakistan to open their campuses and many projects were in the later stages of planning but PPP's anti-awam govt cancelled all of those projects and none of the patwaris (PMLn) objected...hence they were part and parcel of that decision making in 2008. If those projects were allowed to complete, today we will have some very skilled people coming out of those schools who could easily fuel the progress of the industry in the country. The investor seeks such places where very skilled labour is available in sufficient numbers and at reasonable wages.

 

[Crusher]

May be you are right sir but this had to be done by the previous govt. It takes years and decades before you can have sufficient and well skilled labor but previous govt of PPP and PMLn both sabotaged the education system in general and vocational training in particular. Dr Atta-ur-Rehman had made excellent plans to this end by inviting top universities in Pakistan to open their campuses and many projects were in the later stages of planning but PPP's anti-awam govt cancelled all of those projects and none of the patwaris (PMLn) objected...hence they were part and parcel of that decision making in 2008. If those projects were allowed to complete, today we will have some very skilled people coming out of those schools who could easily fuel the progress of the industry in the country. The investor seeks such places where very skilled labour is available in sufficient numbers and at reasonable wages.

Unlike the developed countries, 90% of our skilled labour never comes from any kind of "structured training" from vocational or technical institutes, in Pakistan it has always been ustad/shagird system where young boys who drop out of school are "attached" with an existing skilled "electrician", "mechanic", "plumber", "mason", "carpenter" etc. through family and social contacts of their parents. These boys start as "helpers" for the said trades of their ustad and then gradually rise up over the years with hands on experience as the "master" of the trade of their "ustad". Now these guys as they grow older and more experienced become the "new ustad" for the new "shagird boys". It is still the system in place for developing skilled workers in Pakistan, the government in Pakistan has always very limited contribution to develop any significant number of "skilled workers" through its "scarce" poly technical institutes over the last 70 years or so. So all the governments in the last 70 years are responsible not just the previous two. The fact of the matter is that our society itself produces its "skilled workers" unlike the developed countries in the west (like Germany for example) where the government bodies are the main force behind developing the skilled workers.

 

[Reddington]

But what about putting the incoming chinese workers under an appropriate vetting process so that we don't get criminals and prisoners from china coming into Pakistan under the garb of "chinese workers" and we know this has been happening for quite some time now. Pakistan government needs to have a vetting process in place so that only "genuine" civilized workers come from china to work on CPEC projects in Pakistan and not some criminals/prisoners and other such POS.



It indeed is even worse than British East india company because the company still employed at least some local workers, in case of china it is my way or the highway. Now it is a vision of a new "development model" that has been carved out for us by our great "thinkers" and "strategists" in power corridors of islamabad/rawalpindi and we have to live with it.

Nawaza literally sold Pakistan. We don't know what agreement he did with the Chinese as it is not public. ATM scams, marriage scams etc are recent examples. It is said that China towns would be made here for Chinese workers like the China towns in other countries.

 

[Crusher]

Nawaza literally sold Pakistan. We don't know what agreement he did with the Chinese as it is not public. ATM scams, marriage scams etc are recent examples. It is said that China towns would be made here for Chinese workers like the China towns in other countries.

Indeed very strange "vision" or "development model" based on slavery envisioned by all the players that were involved in drafting it on Pakistani side including nawaz sharif and other power players in the last couple of decades. This model is based on the deep rooted belief in our power players that "we are incompetent, lazy, incapable of developing anything on our own, so let the chinese do it all for us and for themselves irrespective of the conditions imposed by chinese", it is essentially a "vision of development" carved out by a "defeatist mindset" lacking in any kind of self-esteem and self-belief, in other words a mindset that doesn't want to "work" for itself.

 

[El Sidd]

You are Jiyala,Patwari,anti-national or what?
That was just election stunt.

Nobody told me that. I thought all Sadiq Ameen Sakhat Laundays are ruling Pakistan

 

[Sine Nomine]

Nobody told me that. I thought all Sadiq Ameen Sakhat Laundays are ruling Pakistan

That's universal truth.Anbody thinking otherwise is
committing blasphemy and should be hanged.

 

[El Sidd]

That's universal truth.Anbody thinking otherwise is
committing blasphemy and should be hanged.

I triple talaaq the government!!

 

[Sine Nomine]

I triple talaaq the government!!

Ameer ul momineen won't like that.

 

[El Sidd]

Ameer ul momineen won't like that.

He is least informed person in Pakistan. Nobody tell him nothing citing fragile mental health.

 

[Sine Nomine]

He is least informed person in Pakistan. Nobody tell him nothing citing fragile mental health.

He is fit and fine and very well informed apart from having memory loss and hearing problem he is fit.

 

[WarKa DaNG]

So there isnt any capable people in 220 million to get a job instead of chinese

 

[El Sidd]

He is fit and fine and very well informed apart from having memory loss and hearing problem he is fit.

i doubt he is mentally fit.

 

[Sine Nomine]

i doubt he is mentally fit.

He has been voted by public by saying that you are saying that public is mentally unfit.

 

[darksider]

yesterday imran khan approve to waive off visa fee of chines workers.
how generous this gov is.please waive off my utility bills also some time.

 

[haidian]

China had similar policies in the 1980's and 1990's, allocated many tax free zones and preferential foreign investment regions, Shenzhen (a small fishing village barely 4 decades ago) is one of them, incentives were given to attract foreign investments, those policies were called by many who were against them the new twenty one demands https://www.britannica.com/event/Twenty-one-Demands, but now decades passed, now we all clearly see how those policies helped China to come to today's position.

Pakistan was a much richer country than China in Chinese eyes barely 30 years ago, If China didn't change and reformed the country completely, China would be still a less developed country than Pakistan. All countries can change their fate, it all depends on if they have a will to change.