Pakistanis must wake up, become educated, become a professional, do more and develop your nation.
Why i have singled out this one line is because whilst your posts are passionate, they are missing one major factor:
The average Pakistani is too busy worrying about where is next meal will come from and if he can afford to buy the medicines for his family or keep a roof over their heads.
The "Educated and Professional" cadre and the establishment as a whole are yet to fully understand the effects of negative brain drain and the lack of investment in talent and resource.
And whilst the present government has started a Farcicle "Program to return highly skilled Pakistanis to the nation and reep the benefit" the majority of "higher tier" resource is still busy ogling foreign jobs and opportunities.
That being said the country has still to see any real gains from "remittance from abroad" as India did back in the early 90's. One of the major issues is the complex and rather dubious system of Hundi which further impacts on such remittances actually reflecting on the national economy.
The lack of investment in industry, infrastructure and vocational training further hamper's economic growth and market investor confidence.
Consider the fact the despite SMEDA(Small And Medium Enterprise Development Authority celebrating it's 12 year in operations the current trends and growth in the SME sector is poor at best:
SMEDA - Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority
Coming back to the Education factor, when you have programs like Chevening and Fullbright swallowing up local talent in the name of "enlightenment" and "exchange" you have a terrible mix.
Just recently one of Pakistani's up and coming non-scientist was gobbled up in the name of "research and exchange". Another major issue is the lack of motivation for expatriates and overseas Pakistanis to return to Pakistan.
This is again because of the factors of lack of investment in people, infrastructure, job security, and in many ways "social security". The flood's have made a bad situation worse with a large sum of the population food insecure coupled with loss of lively hood and homes, it is a complex and very fragile situation.
I am sure despite the foreign observers lambasting of our country, no world leader would like to be the captain of this ship at the moment.
Now if that all sounds like doom and gloom, well never fear. Because the average Pakistani is still caught in the endless cycle of his or her struggle for daily survival whilst our Anglophile cultural, financial and educationalist elite go to and fro in their air conditioned bubbles oblivious to the strife and suffering around them.
Oh the irony Mr. XYZ shops at Beverly centre for a Rolex watch for his son worth 100s of thousands of rupees, whilst just down the road Mr. ABC is busy scrounging a living selling baked pulses on his street stand
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People say Pakistan need's more education, Pakistan needs more development... I say yes but what it needs first and foremost is for the pompous decadent elite of our society to awaken and DO MORE for a country they have helped bleed dry.
Our country was built on the selfless scarifies of every man, women and child. What we need more than anything is a renaissance, perhaps these self-centred, egocentric lot should take a leaf out of books of lore, of those brave pilgrims who braved the blazing heat, the raiding marauders with only the clothes on their backs and the Belief
the Belief of establishing a new world.
Bring back the belief and you will bring back Pakistan.
