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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Posted on 2013-08-31 05:44:23</span></p><div align="center" style="margin:5px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:13px;line-height:21px">
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<div align="center" style="margin:5px;padding:0px"></div></div>Pakistan is a developing country and its economy is the world’s 27th largest economy based on its purchasing power. However, the country remained impoverished due to internal political disturbances and negligible foreign investment, since independence. During the past one decade, Pakistan became the victim of terrorism and therefore no significant foreign as well as overseas Pakistanis investment was observed. <br>
Due to the reason, Pakistani engineers, doctors and other technical skilled personnel are facing acute jobless dilemma. If Pakistani policy makers really cares and interested for the uplift of its people then it’s high time to change its educational syllabus in accordance with the present geo economic scenarios. Pakistan is in no doubt situated in a very important and strategic place. It’s a bridge between China and Arab Nation and further to developing African countries. <br>
Both Arab Peninsula and China are economically viable nations while Africa is the booming place where Indian, Chinese and European companies are in a race to capture the business. So we are lucky in the sense that we can not only play a vital role in bridging the ties between Chinese and Arab world but can also take the benefit from their growing economic boom.<br>
Unfortunately due to deteriorating economic conditions within Pakistan as well as current economic meltdown in other parts of the world on the one hand while growing business of Chinese and Indian companies on the other hand, Pakistanis are facing extreme difficulties to get its place. In the Arab Peninsula, Arabic speaking are preferred otherwise Europeans get the advantage and are highly paid while in Chinese and Spanish companies, language is the main barrier for Pakistanis. But unfortunately, Pakistani policy makers never felt these issues as threats because we always preferred to speak and learn English. <br>
However, even in Europe other languages are equally important alongside English. Now the time has come where we have to sincerely start at least Chinese, Arabic and Spanish in schools and colleges curriculum as a subject to make the prospects of our future generation better and secure. With the fast moving and changing current international scenarios it is very evident that Chinas economy is the most dynamic and stable at the moment. China almost captured all the market from Australia to America. We can see Chinese dominance not only in the consumer products but also in the technology and advance sciences. We very well know that Chinese export to USA is far more than US exports to China. African countries like South Africa also give special business facilities to Chinese. <br>
Similarly, Arabic language is important in many respects. Our Holy book is in Arabic, our culture is very similar to the Arab world, and major part of the labor force is working in these countries whose mother tongue is Arabic. It’s spoken in more than 22 countries. Most of these Arabic speaking countries are oil-rich and business hubs. Arabic speakers are preferred in most of the job advertisements in these countries. <br>
However, it’s important to note that many of the MNCs like Google, Microsoft, Dell, HP, Cisco, Juniper, Nokia, Sony, Toyota and many others have their regional HQs in UAE, Saudi, Qatar, and Bahrain etc. Even Airbus and Boeing are planning to open their regional manufacturing plants in this peninsula.<br>
Now with the growing and booming market of China, where many US and European companies has regional and manufacturing head offices, these European nations will soon start Chinese language to cater and counter Chinese business. This shows how much important is to learn Chinese, Mandarin, Arabic and Spanish languages. Keeping in mind that Short course and languages are not sufficient but we have to introduce these foreign languages in schools and colleges as compulsory subject where student may choose anyone between Spanish or Chinese-Mandarin.<br>
M. Moazen Bilal<br>Lahore</span><div><div style="text-align:justify"><font color="#333333" face="verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:21px"><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align:justify">
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