…not be up to the challenge to be the change the country needs.
As this “new generation” You have a good life here. You start from a high standard, Your family can finance Your studies and You meet only people of Your class . Your family servant drives You to school and prepairs Your food. You dont go to other parts of town except of Yours, go for holidays to Europe and fly to other places in Pakistan (which have Your standards of living). After You get a quality university education, multinational corporations target You and take You and give You a job. The state doesnt give a sh*t about You (no state-run pension system or social support exists in Pakistan) and only thing that it wants from You is Your tax, on the other hand, the company You work for is offering You free training, allows You to travel abroad and gives You paid holidays.
A lot of Young Pakistanis are proud to be Pakistanis, but have never traveled their own country and dont have problem to leave the country, heading for USA or UK, as soon as they get the needed years of practical experience in Pakistan.
There is also one more factor. In Slovakia the brain drain from the whole country leads talents to the capital. Most (80%) of my uni ex-classmates work in Bratislava, life is comfortable and acceptably safe there, jobs are always available, wages are higher. In here, there is not such a place, no city is safe enough (only parts are), thus people with potential dont have where to go… except of abroad.
NGOs wont save the country, they will just help those at bottom survive. Governemt is selfconcerned and only wants to bring foreign investments (without the need of bringing also foreigners and their “wild” ideas of free thinking, that would bring “instability”). The needed drive is in the hands of Young people and the slowly rising ammount of middle class…
“Be the change You want to see in the world” Mahatma Gandhi
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