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‘Performance and merit alone can make Pakistan’
TODAY’S youth hold the greatest promise for the future of Pakistan. The technical manpower trained in the 60s made Pakistan a nuclear power and the students of the 90s earned Islamabad the status of a missile power.
Nuclear scientist and Chairman of the National Engineering and Scientific Commission (Nescom) Dr Samar Mubarakmand stated this while speaking at the induction ceremony of a fresh batch of the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology recently.
Investing in education and research in our institutions of learning we are making an investment for future. This is the only way Pakistan can stand up as frontline state in the today’s competitive and rapidly changing technological world, he observed.
“There are islands of excellence in Pakistan where induction, promotions and career progression are done on performance and merit alone,” said Dr Mubarakmand.
Lamenting working conditions in Pakistan, he said that it was vital to understand that serving in Pakistan was never easy because the environment here was not conducive to the blossoming of talent. . . . We are a society still sunk in trauma of colonial attitudes where conditions of curbing merit and talent were rampant. We still have to go a long way before we make things ideal for the country.”
In his welcome address the rector of the institute Prof Dr Muhammad Naseer Khan said it was imperative for the students “to learn to avoid apparently minor distractions which often cause major problems.”
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