If he got in on merit and then ends up spending the rest of his life cooking butter chicken so he can live in the UK, he is an idiot and a dishonest one at that.Why cant he pursue both? And if he got in the engineering school on merit, whats the issue? There is no someone else's spot in that case. And if the issue is a dreath of spots in Pakistan for those higher education disciplines, we should be concentrating on creating more graduate level institutions to meet the increasing demand from the growing under-30 crowd in Pakistan
I apply the same rule to girls who join engineering or medical schools just go get a degree to sit at home and breed with their husbands.