Slowly but surely, I grew more and more disoriented, increasingly more detached from the world, something sad and awful straining around the edges of my mouth, surfacing in my eyes. I stopped going out at night. I stopped going out. Nothing could distract me. I felt like I was losing control. Something terrible was going to happen. Eventually something terrible did happen.
Pakistan, within one year has turned into a banana republic. The enforced government along with powerful institutions, combined together to damage this country like never before. Most say the US is behind all the turmoil, might be wrong, but also might be right. See the brain drain, every young chap has lined for immigration, mostly to America. Let us know that United States has benefited from brain gain, which has helped to fuel the entrepreneurial energy of American society. Today immigrants make up 13 percent of the total U.S. population, but they account for 25 percent of the new business owners and 30 percent of the people working in Silicon Valley. Of the top twenty-five U.S. tech companies in 2013, 60 percent were founded by first- or second-generation imigrants. Steve Jobs at Apple: second generation from Syria. Sergey Brin at Google: first generation from Russia. Larry Ellison at Oracle: second generation from Russia. Jeff Bezos at Amazon: second generation fom Cuba. While many of these founders with immigrant roots hail from countries mired in war or economic dysfunction, quite a few come from families that left the heavily regulated economies of Europe, including old East Germany (Konstantin Guericke of Symantec), France (Pierre Omidyar of eBay), and Italy (Roger Marino of EMC).
In 2013 the tech analyst Mary Meeker circulated photos of a billboard that the Canadian government placed on Highway 101, the main artery
through Silicon Valley, taking a cheeky jab at President Barack Obama’s promise of a foreign policy “Pivot to Asia.” The billboard read, “H1B problems? Pivot to Canada.”
It would be hard to find a crisper declaration of the global talent war. One way to identify winners is to look for countries where immigrants
account for a large and growing share of university grads, which suggests that the nation has been gaining in educated talent. This gain is most
dramatic in Britain, Canada, and particularly Australia, where immigrants represent 30 percent of the total population but 40 percent of university
grads. That 10 percent gap represents significant brain gain. In the United States and Japan, immigrants represent equal shares of the university- educated population and the general population, so their impact is less powerful. In Germany, the Netherlands, and some other European countries, the immigrant population is less likely to hold degrees than the local population.
There is no question that cultural barriers complicate the process of integrating migrants into an advanced economy, but the same is true of
integrating women and the elderly. Moreover, the fear of unskilled migrants is probably overblown. A growing body of research shows that immigration —skilled or not—tends to boost productivity and economic growth. World Bank economist Caglar Ozden recently looked into the often-heard charge that immigrants steal jobs from locals and found little truth to the claim. The main human drivers of productivity growth in the United States are scientists, tech professionals, engineers, and mathematicians—fields in which immigrants are already overrepresented. In this way migrants tend to fill jobs locals don’t want at both the low end and the high end, whether as maids or math professors.
This is what is now we witness in Pakistan. Brain drain, where even un skilled labors are also seen leaving for safe heavens.