Pakistan has experienced the brain drain since Partition for reasons as varied as political instability to inadequate job opportunities. According to some statistics, up to two-thirds of Pakistanis want to migrate. But the trend may be shifting. Nowadays, many young Pakistanis are choosing to return to the Land of the Pure with the intention of carving a forgotten path in a country they left long ago.
But are these students and recent graduates returning because of the post-9/11 global situation and heightened discrimination faced by Pakistanis? Or is it because it’s relatively easier to make a breakthrough here? Can it be that Generation Y is more identity conscious and invested in the future of its country?
Whatever their motivation, young Pakistanis are slowly reversing the brain drain.
Pakistanis return not to make money, but because they feel needed here. There a lot more opportunities here than abroad. They think if people surround themselves with positive people and keep at it, things will change in Pakistan.
It makes sense to them to do something for Pakistan rather than another developing country because they can make the most difference here, they understand the community better here, and the most important, there is some attachment and I think that attachment can certainly be a good motivating factor.
The main reason of brain drain is that Pakistan is not in that good position to attract its brightest minds back to their homeland and in some where people are not willing because of Healthy and Protected foreign life.

Due to Brain drain Pakistan Suffers a lot. Experts in their respective fields are migrating from Pakistan to secure their future. The outflow of human capital spells gloom for the long-term growth of the country in near future.

One reason of Brain drain is that Pakistani companies have been hiring foreign experts for consulting their problems they are facing during their businesses, productions and other issues which causing huge loss of foreign exchange as the foreign consultants send back the money to their native countries.

Although the country has been receiving millions of dollars in shape of remittance which these experts send back to Pakistan every year, these remittance are not a substitute of the expertise of educated and expert people, he remarked.

The expatriate Pakistanis just visit the country to meet their relatives which is very disappointing for the future growth of the country, he observed. Four million Pakistani are settled in Europe, USA and Canada and not sending money back to the country. On the other hand a large number of Pakistani experts have been working in Middle East and Saudi Arabia, he said adding that due to strict nationality and citizenship procedures rate of remittances from these countries were higher than those from Europe, USA and Canada.

The non availability of good options is also a big reason for Brain drain. Our youth is feels disappointed about their future and many young people are thinking and planning to go abroad and get settled there. Govt. has to give attractive packages to the highly qualified Pakistanis to control the migration of such experts.

Unfortunately in Pakistan the students have to suffer the brunt of a parallel system of international boards with the local board. Students affiliated with foreign boards are discriminated at the hands of national colleges and universities for following the local curriculum and IBCC through the equivalent certificate, which mars their potential in getting admission at any national universities.
According to data provided by the University of Health Sciences, more than 18,000 students took the entry test for MBBS programme last year and only 488 of them were A-Level students. However, only 13 could make it to the medical institutions. This time attendance of 560 students of A-level was marked out of 22,000 students in total. Of these 560 students none was able to pass the test.
This time the Cambridge and other boards students appearing for the admission tests in medical colleges protested over the injustice done by University of Health Sciences. The happiness over appearing for separate admission test of the students who already aggrieved over unfair conversion system has somehow disappeared.
The students claimed that the A-Level syllabus is altered every 10 years, whereas small amendments are made every year. Many of the questions were selected from past papers of 1960 and 1970 that were out of line with the CIE syllabus. Also A-Level questions are prepared by experienced British examiners keeping in mind that each question is solved within 90 seconds with the help of a calculator. Whereas many numerical questions in the Physics section required the use of a calculator.
Further, FSc students are protesting over the possibility of reserving a quota of 200 seats for A-level and non-FSc students. They believed that it would be discrimination against students earning place on merit and concerns of students regarding out of course questions should be addressed rather ruling out equity.
It is not a good sign that the students have to come on roads to protect their rights. The discrimination on either side would not uplift the morale of the students. The government now should think of creating a uniform platform for all students of Pakistan.

It is difficult to figure out how many Pakistanis are living abroad but it is roughly estimated that nearly six million of them have left the country for good. In the Graph and estimated percentage shows the Pakistani living in abroad.

According to Wikipedia Encyclopedia, figures from the 2001 Canadian Census indicate that there are about 75,000 Canadians who claim Pakistani. World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), in its study, has cautioned that in the health sector emigration hurts their family & homelands.Doctors, Nurses and Medical specialists continue to leave African, Asian and Caribbean countries, the health services, they leave behind become depressed and scarce, especially in Africa, which is already suffering the rising toll of HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases that kill and impair economic development.

Due to terrorism and economic crisis, the highly qualified and brilliant people are forced to leave the country in search of better future in the West.The initiative of Higher Education Commission (HEC) to convert brain-drain into brain-gain is also being damaged owing to poor policies of the new government. However, thousands of MBBS graduates are produced annually from different medical colleges and universities in the country, while 50 to 60 per cent of the fresh graduates leave the country to pursue for better professional careers in foreign lands. Conversely, the feeling of insecurity is also compelling common man to migrate towards wealthy countries, including Canada, Australia, England, America, New Zealand, Germany and South Africa. The studies also recommend that countries that are losing talent should set up more liberal and open government that create a positive environment for business and the well-educated persons could contribute for improvement of economy and the society at large.

Nadia Naviwala is a graduate student in public policy at Harvard University. She is currently in Pakistan working with a non-governmental organization catering to internally displaced persons (IDPs). She last visited Pakistan five years ago with her family, but says the experience is different now that she’s on her own: ‘After visiting Pakistan and working on the ground, its hard to go back to the United States and be so comfortable.’
Nadia has returned to deepen her academic understanding of the country. ‘I can only learn so much about the country from Washington DC or Cambridge. I came back to learn to understand and experience the country as Pakistanis do, which is different from the Pakistani-American perspective.’
Despite her own motivations, Nadia believes that expatriate Pakistanis return ‘not to make money, but because they feel needed here.’

Pakistan has experienced the brain drain since Partition for reasons as varied as political instability to inadequate job opportunities. According to some statistics, up to two-third of Pakistanis want to migrate. But the trend may be shifting. Nowadays, many young Pakistanis are choosing to retutn to the Land of the Pure with the intention of carving a forgotten path in a country they left long ago. But are these students and recent graduates returning because of the post-9/11 global situation and heightened discrimntion faced by Pakistanis? Or is it because it’s relatively easier to make a breakthrough here? Can it be that Generation Y is more identity conscious and invested in the future of its country?