Pakistan's Growing Human Capital

[karan21]

Here's a Wall Street Journal story on the stunting of human capital growth in India:

At least 3,000 children as young as six are being recruited by insurgent groups across India, according to a new report published by a human rights group.

The New Delhi-based Asian Centre for Human Rights says the practice of using child soldiers is “rampant,” with the majority recruited in Maoist-affected states like Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal.

Maoist rebels, also known as Naxalites, have been described by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as India’s greatest internal security challenge. They assert control over vast areas of land in central and eastern India. The insurgency was launched in the late 1960s in West Bengal. The rebels say they are fighting for the rights of indigenous tribes and the rural poor, and their ultimate goal is to create a communist society.

Report: India

But they forgot to mention that India is also producing 1.2 million engineers every year. Just an example...

Now I know you will come up with an article written by an American to show show crap Indian engineering is.

Mr. Haq you are trying hard to sell an awsome vibrant pakistan to the world through your website, but unfortunately even your best is not good enough to catch worlds attention. PS: I still respect your work and please keep it up.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

But they forgot to mention that India is also producing 1.2 million engineers every year. Just an example...

Now I know you will come up with an article written by an American to show show crap Indian engineering is.

Mr. Haq you are trying hard to sell an awsome vibrant pakistan to the world through your website, but unfortunately even your best is not good enough to catch worlds attention. PS: I still respect your work and please keep it up.

Throw some more facts infront of him to lure him on.
He is just the "Badshah of Bull$hit".

 

[Vinod2070]

But they forgot to mention that India is also producing 1.2 million engineers every year. Just an example...

Now I know you will come up with an article written by an American to show show crap Indian engineering is.

Mr. Haq you are trying hard to sell an awsome vibrant pakistan to the world through your website, but unfortunately even your best is not good enough to catch worlds attention. PS: I still respect your work and please keep it up.

He is doing no such thing.

The real reasons are much more mundane.

 

[RiazHaq]

Here's more on the lack of quality of human capital in India:

Three years after India launched the “Right to Education” act, more than half of the nation’s primary school students cannot read a second grade book, revealed Pratham, India’s largest non-profit education organization, in its annual ASER survey.

About 96 percent of India’s children are enrolled in schools, but educational standards have been declining since 2010 — when the RTE was implemented — noted the 2012 ASER report, which surveyed almost 600,000 children in 28 states in India. The ASER survey revealed that only a quarter of Indian students in third grade can do a simple two-digit subtraction problem, down from more than one-third in 2010.

In the country that produced the renowned mathematician Srinivas Ramanujan, less than one-quarter of 5th grade students surveyed could do a simple three-digit by one-digit division problem, down from more than one-third in 2010.

The Right to Education act guarantees an education to all of India’s children, from ages six to 14. Private schools must reserve a quarter of their seats for low-income children and schools must be built in rural areas, according to the mandates of the act, which also state that adequate toilet facilities and clean drinking water must be made available for every student.

“We have got a lot of children into schools, but we must now take a re-look of how we teach and what we teach,” Madhav Chavan, founder of Pratham, told India-West before an Apr. 22 Pratham “Meet and Greet” event in New York, where supporters of the organization, including many Indian Americans, were invited to share their views on Indian education.


Read more at India

 

[Vinod2070]

Well, yes, the standards at many of our schools need to go up.

But far too many Pakistanis remain ignorant of concepts like ratios, percentages, per capita etc.

Even when they have supposedly completed their graduation and been coolies in the West for decades.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

He is doing no such thing.

The real reasons are much more mundane.

among them...........................lack of self-esteem.

 

[Vinod2070]

among them...........................lack of self-esteem.

Identity crisis would top that imho.

 

[RiazHaq]

A Chowk.com article titled "Indian Technical Recession", written by an IIT Alumnus Mr. Sharad Chandra, asks the following basic question about the quality of engineering education in India:

"So why Indian engineering education system is not capable of producing quality engineers for the country?"

Then the author goes on to answer his own question as follows:

"One of the primary answers lies in the fact that Indian education is totally focused on academic excellence. A student is never asked to analyze, understand, and deliver an engineering project. Very often faculty also has no engineering experience. Professors may have an excellent academic background going themselves through graduation, post graduation and PhD but with a minimal exposure to industrial applications. In short, they prepare their students also for an excellent academic career expecting him to learn hard core engineering on the job but very often producing bankers.

In all there is about 3 months spent in training during graduation. It is taken more as a break from courses as no industry will give any serious project for such a short period. Student spends his time as an observer rather than as a responsible engineer. There is nothing like putting a trainer on a real job under the supervision of an experienced engineer. By the time, he has finished 6months to a year working on a real project, as any European student does, he will have something to his credit to show to a future employer."


A few top-tier Indian schools, such as the elite Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), are often compared with world-class schools, but the American investors and businesses have finally learned the hard way that there is huge gap between the few tier one schools and the large number of tier two and three schools in India, and the quality of education most Indians receive at tier 2 and 3 schools is far below the norm considered acceptable in America and the developed world.

In 2005, the McKinsey Global Institute conducted a study of the emerging global labor market and concluded that a sample of twenty-eight low wage nations, including China, India and Pakistan, had about 33 million young professional in engineering, finance and accounting at their disposal, compared with only 15 million in a sample of eight higher wage nations including the US, UK, Germany, Japan, Australia, Canada, Ireland and South Korea. But "only a fraction of potential job candidates could successfully work at a foreign company," the study found, pointing to many explanations, but mainly poor quality of education.

Some India watchers such as Fareed Zakaria, an Indian-American who often acts as a cheerleader for India in the US, have expressed doubts about the quality of education at the Indian Institutes of Technology. In his book "The Post-American World", Zakaria argues that "many of the IITs are decidedly second-rate, with mediocre equipment, indifferent teachers, and unimaginative classwork." Zakaria says the key strength of the IIT graduates is the fact that they must pass "one of the world's most ruthlessly competitive entrance exams. Three hundred thousand people take it, five thousand are admitted--an acceptance rate of 1.7% (compared with 9 to 10 percent for Harvard, Yale, and Princeton)."

Haq's Musings: More on Quality of Higher Education in India and Pakistan

 

[Vinod2070]

Throw some more facts infront of him to lure him on.
He is just the "Badshah of Bull$hit".

Well, someone with a lot of spare time, no work in his ripe old age and a lifelong identity crisis, coupled with all those Indians bypassing him in his career and bossing him around...

Sometimes one can feel pity.

 

[nastikan]

I thought this thread was about Pakistan's amazing human capital. This man has been lured back into his old habit. lol

 

[cloud_9]

Well, someone with a lot of spare time, no work in his ripe old age and a lifelong identity crisis, coupled with all those Indians bypassing him in his career and bossing him around...

Sometimes one can feel pity.

Don't they have Superannuation or Pension Plans in US

Anyway guys give the gentleman some space.He is a staunch supporter of India as he mentions India more than Pakistan in most of his posts.
Mr. keep the articles rolling

This thread could be converted into Mr. Riaz's Uncyclopedia.

 

[Asian.Century]

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[Vinod2070]

Don't they have Superannuation or Pension Plans in US

Anyway guys give the gentleman some space.He is a staunch supporter of India as he mentions India more than Pakistan in most of his posts.
Mr. keep the articles rolling

This thread could be converted into Mr. Riaz's Uncyclopedia.

Here is the typical modus operandi.

Start a thread ostensibly about Pakistan.
Jump into pathetic and useless comparisons with India almost immediately.
Start bashing India by scavenging anything from anywhere, related to the topic or not
Repeat the same pathetic lies over and over

What is the need to be so insecure? What have we got to do with him or Pakistan?

We have nothing to do with him or his ilk. We are a very different country and very different civilization. The very basis of his country, the two nation theory makes it clear that we share nothing at all.

If at all he has to obsess with others, he can obsess with Islamic Ummah countries like Afghaistan and Somalia.

They are far closer in some lists as well.

 

[Asian.Century]

Here's an AFP story on Pakistan's rising middle class consumption:

In a smart corner of Karachi, a new mall offers wealthy clientele the chance to lunch on an American burger, buy French cosmetics, shop for cocktail dresses, sip an afternoon cappuccino or wolf down a cinnamon roll.

Female sales assistants dressed in jeans and T-shirts buck the idea that “service industry” jobs are unsuitable for women, even if many of them commute into work heavily veiled to avoid being harassed or insulted.

“It is time when Pakistanis are getting branded. It is a new phenomenon,” says Samiullah Mohabbat, the chief executive who brought American franchise Fatburger from Beverly Hills to Karachi, a city troubled by shootings and kidnappings.

“The world has just started coming to Pakistan and this trend will grow.”

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...the middle class has grown over the last decade. Karachi, the country’s financial hub, Lahore and the capital Islamabad have all seen a surge in Western-style coffee shops, fast-food franchises and new malls.

Karachi’s Dolmen Mall is the newest and flashiest.

There is Spanish fashion favourite Mango, US beauty and home firm Crabtree and Evelyn and British high street staples Mothercare and Debenhams.

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Mohabbat has invested $7 million in opening Pakistan’s first Fatburger restaurant last month on the second floor of Dolmen Mall, with plans for another in Karachi, two in Lahore and a fifth in Islamabad.

Far from seeing the country’s troubles as a bar to business, Mohabbat says a $5.50 burger is the perfect antidote.

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At lunch time, his 130-seat restaurant is buzzing. In Beverly Hills, there may be nothing exciting about going out for a burger, but in Karachi the novelty and the relative expense make it a sought-after privilege.

The walls are plastered with large notebook papers scribbled with the experiences of the clients. “Yummilicious,” screeches out one.

There is a scrum at the counters as customers wait their turn. A dozen workers cut and cook imported American beef, slathering it with spices and vegetables, shoving it in a bun and handing it to the waiters.

“It’s certainly quite expensive for the average Pakistani, but I prefer it because I can afford it,” says businessman Masroor Afzal, 44, who works round the corner and says he frequently pops over.

“The beauty of Karachi is that it has everything for everyone. There are many people who can’t afford to eat or shop here, but they have other bazaars.”

Analysts say there is enormous potential in Pakistan as a market for global consumer goods, despite the structural problems in the economy.

According to the finance ministry, 104 million people are aged 15 to 59 and by 2030, 30 percent of the population will be younger than 30.

Khurram Schehzad, head of research at investment firm Arif Habib Securities in Karachi, says consumer spending has grown 26 percent in Pakistan since 2010, compared to seven percent for Asia as a whole.

Business mogul Abid Umer says there is “tremendous potential” for retail.

His Al-Karam Group brought its first foreign franchises – Babyshop from Bahrain and Splash from the United Arab Emirates – to Pakistan in 2005. Today his portfolio has extended to Mango.

“Pakistan is full of aspirational customers,” said Umer.

“Sure, Pakistan has its share of issues but in most cases, day to day life is not affected, plus the tremendous customer response and low cost of operations makes it worthwhile.”

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Helen Lacey, Debenhams’ senior PR manager, told AFP the company had carried out extensive market research and had “no current security concerns”.

“International brands in Pakistan in general are performing strongly. This is a large and growing market and there is a clear appetite for British brands here and growth potential with a rapidly growing middle class,” she said....

 

[Bas_kya_bhai]

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