As soon as Twitter got a new CEO, Pakistanis hit the social media ground to play the T20 match: Unkay CEOs vs Humaray CEOs. That the new CEO of the micro-blogging site, Parag Agrawal, is India-born has opened the floodgates of soul-searching in Pakistan, something that many get in the mode of doing in December, asking oneself what one did with the year.
“India invested in IT what did Pakistan invest in?”, said a user. Then there were those who asked “how did we reach nowhere and they are everywhere?” But all is not gloomy, there are still Pakistani exports that no one can match, even if the ‘city of Prague’ becomes the new Twitter CEO.
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What we do know so far is that techies India-born and educated in public universities of the country have landed top jobs in Google, IBM, Microsoft and now Twitter. Hence, the question Pakistanis are asking is where are we on the IT front? Where are our IITs? A serious debate on the subject will reflect on the lack of policy or even seriousness towards it. When the priorities of successive military and civilian governments have been to cling onto power, technology institutions that ready the talent to compete on the global stage don’t make the cut. The ministry of science and technology is also treated as a punishment or demotion posting rather than a portfolio of choice. Let alone the want for tech...
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