The prestigious American journal Science of 17-12-2010 has stated that the economic progress of China is directly related to 80 percent of its legislators and rulers being engineers and scientists that were the mainspring of its historic rise.
It may be mentioned here that Pakistan and China achieved freedom almost at the same time but Pakistan today is sad example of poor governance with many of its legislators having incomplete and doubtful educational qualifications according to the Election Commission of Pakistan. So much so that one Chief Minister of a province had declared that degree is a degree whether genuine or fake.
The unbelievable events like appointment of a matriculate as the head of OGDC and a Law Minister with a doubtful doctorate degree from a dubious university are only a tip of the ice berg.
The marvellous development of China, like the Three Gorges dam that provides 18600 MW of power and irrigation water to 30 percent crops of China, is the result of technocratic rulers with the Prime Minister being an irrigation engineer at one time. Pakistan lags behind in this area severely.
MUHAMMAD YAQOOB BHATTI
Lahore
