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Even when a manual certificate is issued by BMP, MOFA declines attestation and demands a digital certificate instead.
This issue is causing significant hardship. Authorities are requested to urgently look into this matter @OfficialDPRPP@EMarakaz
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We, the residents of Tehsil Koh-e-Suleman (Dera Ghazi Khan), are facing serious difficulties in obtaining Police Clearance Certificates.
Khidmat Center Taunsa refuses applications unless the present address is in Taunsa.@EMarakaz@OfficialDPRPP
Pakistan's Brain drain crisis: 400,000 highly-qualified Pakistanis left country in six months.
Official data released on Thursday revealed that more than 400,000 highly-qualified young Pakistanis embarked on a desperate search for employment abroad during the first six months of this year. This persistent phenomenon, known as "brain drain," has seen a staggering 2.75 million youth leave the country in the past five years.
Experts attribute this brain drain to uncertain economic conditions, rising inflation, and high levels of unemployment, impacting various regions across the country. According to an official document obtained by The Express Tribune, over 1.2 million young individuals have pursued overseas employment during the current coalition government's tenure.
In the first half of this year, 832,000 people went abroad, with over 400,000 leaving the country to seek employment in 40 different sectors. This group comprised highly-educated and highly-trained youngsters. Notably, a breakdown of the data reveals that among those who left the country in the past one-and-a-half years, there were 11,000 accountants, 11,000 engineers, 4,000 doctors, 34,000 technicians, and 37,500 managers. Other professions included 4,000 nurses, 1,560 teachers, 29,000 electricians, 13,445 computer typists, 8,000 agricultural experts, 15,000 computer operators, 24,000 supervisors, and more than 1,600 draftsmen.
Arab countries emerged as the primary destinations for most Pakistani youth in search of better employment opportunities. Approximately 700,000 individuals went to Saudi Arabia, 229,000 to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), 111,000 to Oman, and 90,000 to Qatar. Outside the Middle East, the statistics indicate that 8,000 Pakistanis migrated to Great Britain, more than 1,300 to the United States, over 20,000 to Malaysia, 3,000 to Greece, and more than 6,000 to Romania.
The document also highlights the regional distribution of the brain drain phenomenon. In the last year and a half, 683,000 youth were from Punjab, 324,000 from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 90,000 from Sindh, 12,000 from Balochistan, 44,000 from Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and 11,000 from Islamabad.
Official data further reveals that 382,000 individuals went abroad in 2018, followed by 625,000 in 2019, 225,000 in 2020, and 288,000 in 2021. Notably, among those who left Pakistan were 200,000 highly-educated individuals and over 400,000 highly-trained youth.
The alarming brain drain crisis continues to pose significant challenges for Pakistan's development, necessitating immediate attention and targeted measures to address the underlying causes.
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