This weekend I have heard very strange statement from my Indian colleague that just marvelled me, something which I would never hear from an overseas Pakistani.
But before delving into what I heard, let me start off by giving some figures. According to UK latest immigration statistics 2020, Indian origin people get to secure the most visas in work (Tier1, 2 and 5)and study(Tier -4)category where they are Number 1 and 2 respectively.
It is quite common for Indians to come to UK on temporary work visa and either they get extension or they rerun to India.
But my this colleague told me that they are going back to India because they got the same IT related job in India which is paying double the amount of what they are getting paid while being in UK.
Which is quite astonishing because many people from Pakistan are desperate to come to UK, hence Pakistan secures the top position in only Family related sponsored visas as they want to come here by hook or a crook.
Many of my classmates have left Pakistan recently and although they endorse the right direction taken by the incumbent government their actions, speak otherwise as none of them repatriated to Pakistan.
Brain drain from Pakistan, has accelerated recently and its mainly due to lack of investment opportunities, nepotism, bribery, deteriorating living standards, decline in GDP per capita, uncertain and precarious micro and macro factors.
Although Pakistan is reaping the benefits of remittances but on the other hand losing...
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