V. Makarov
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About Metallurgical experts, my aunt did PHD metallurgy back in the 80s from USA ,and spent the rest of her working life teaching at Karachi university. At the time she was the only female Doctor in metallurgy and one of the few in Pakistan . Her PHD was funded by government of Pakistan .
She and many others like her on who's doctorate GOP actually invested, could have been made more useful by actually giving them research project. But no they were left to teach undergraduate students.
Likewise my cousin did PHD in nuclear physics, again a female and all expenses paid by GOP. Came back to Pakistan, all pumped up for doing wonders for the country, and was deputed to some very low level administration work at Pakistan atomic energy commission.
Resigned within an year, paid the government of Pakistan her PhD scholarship expenses and immigrated to USA.
Today holds multiple patents and lives off licence fees on her patents and is a millionaire.
Another example I remember was my physics teacher in F.Sc . GOP sent him abroad for PHD in radiation physics . He completed the doctorate and came back as the first doctorate holder in Pakistan in that field.....and couldn't find any job. The only job he could find was teaching jobs and ended up in our college . He was a rubbish teacher.
Problem is not the available expertise but lack of use , or bad governance as Ex General Raheel Sharif pointed out as the biggest problem of the country.
Despite spending public money on sending doctorate students abroad for studies, when they come back, they are put to no use at all.
Waste of national money and waste of talent.
I would also like to add that 70% of the PAEC administration just sits all day at office to scroll Facebook. The officers wait restlessly for the 12 o'clock tea break and lunch time. They go back to their offices 3 hours after the lunch to get their brief cases so they can go back to their home in the Suzuki Cultus given to them by the PAEC.
The PAEC keeps on inducting people with no plan of keeping them busy.
I personally know at least 4 employees of PAEC who went abroad for a PhD and never came back. All this happened in a period of 7 years. They were not working on classified projects, so their families were not harassed or done away with, but you can imagine how fed up they were from the system.
There are thousand upon thousands of technicians and lab engineers who gossip all day about politics, sitting inside empty laboratories. They do this for years upon years, so they can get financial security later in life in the form of pensions.
Mismanagement has taken hold of all Pakistani institutions. There just seems to be no way out. Where ever you see, there is a disappointing story waiting to unfold.
I still dont get how threads on PDF of an indigenous fifth generation fighter can get so elaborate. Maybe I'm a pessimist or ,I think, ......too close to reality.