Comments on: Relevance of Research in Pakistan: Aligning Research Agendas with National Priorities

By: M. Irfan Maqsood

M. Irfan Maqsood — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:06:47 +0000

If u will discourage off course they will go, if u will encourage they will stand with u to promote research there….. Tum aisa sochty hay hairat hay Pakistan kaisy develope ho ga, khud pay fikar karna brother tum kon ho tum coountry k lia kia kar rahy ho aur aik researcher kia role play kar raha hay aur us ko milta kia hay yahan sy…………

By: M. Irfan Maqsood

M. Irfan Maqsood — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:04:46 +0000

The Govt is so stupid, I dont want to abuse them, they all are stupids, I am the witness that how many academics explained and presented to their respective departments but they ignored and rejected….. we need to change our minds, the today world is the scientific world, what is in Europe and America, just study that what is the respect of researcher their and how much they are spending on research, u will identify the reality.

By: M. Irfan Maqsood

M. Irfan Maqsood — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 18:52:59 +0000

Salam to all Pakistanis.
First of All, i said thanks to all my Pakistani friends to comments and to write on the Research and turned their thoughts from the global politics to the Research, and secondly its bad to criticize the Research in Pakistan. I give you some examples, to start my discussion here.
In Universities, students are doing their research to use the tap water and to analyze its bacterial and poisonous components in addition to their work which is not in fact their work, under the guidance of young researchers. Pakistani young researchers are working to recycle the waste material and spends their a lot of time where u never went, like garbage places and collect their samples.
Young researchers are giving many suggestions to improve the economical and social setup to their related ministries but ignored. Researchers again and again asked the permissions from govt to practice on the biosphere of country to improve their environment but stupid and uneducated ministers rejected.
We dont need to criticize the research but we need to give the ways and we need to focus our young researchers to work more as they are doing. because this is the only one reason to flourish our country.
i hope you all can understand my views….

An overseas Pakistani Researcher

By: education article

education article — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 07:29:47 +0000

nice share

By: Ali

Ali — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:59:47 +0000

Forgive me for saying this but we are wasting our valuable resources by spending such large sums of money on these PhDs. We all know the end! They are going to ultimately leave the country.

By: Mujahid Ali

Mujahid Ali — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:54:03 +0000

IDEAS are superb:Institute of Research promotion can answer the problems of researchers.We are making efforts to create liaison among academia and industry.Both academia and industry can visit to share research ideas and research based requirements at http://www.uip.lcci.org.pk or for more information write to us at mujahid@irp.edu.pk or contact +9203213692874 Mujahid Ali

By: Mujahid Ali

Mujahid Ali — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:49:10 +0000

Here is now new institute since 5 years,Institute of research promotion (www.irp.edu.pk) we are promoting research culture in Pakistan.Now we are working on working developing networking/interaction/linkages/partnership among the academia and industry.Now there is need from the Government side to join us in Pakista.We are collecting research ideas at one place and Pakistan industry can take benefit through indigenous research produced from Paksitani universities.It will help Pakistan to be competitve in the world.Kindly share this idea to your collegues.
for more information visit on http://www.uip.lcci.org.pk or http://www.irp.edu.pk or email to me at mujahid@irp.edu.pk 9203213692874
Thanks

By: Mujahid Ali

Mujahid Ali — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:38:27 +0000

Dear For research ideas you can visit on ICT R&D fund in Pakistan.or Visit on http://www.uip.lcci.org.pk for sharing of your innovative research on portal
Thanks
We working on developing academia industry linkages in Pakistan.

mujahid@irp.edu.pk +920321-3692874 Lahore

By: Imran

Imran — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:02:59 +0000

The basic problem in my opinion is that we are used to buy ready-made solutions for our problems. So no matter how many engineers/PhDs we produce we really dont need them!

If we start creating our own solutions today then the change will come rapidly. Its it the duty of academicians to demonstrate to govt. that we are capable of doing that.

The government has most of the responsibility. In the beginning our own solutions obviously be inferior to ready-made imported ones but after some time they will mature for sure.

By: Zahid Riaz

Zahid Riaz — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:50:47 +0000

Thank you for your comments. There are indeed some good efforts and examples already in literature. I don’t know about a lot but know very well about Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), an institute ranked among one of the best in Pakistan and was developed by a small team from industry in a small room. Now it has emerged as an autonomous degree awarding institute. Further Quaid-e-Azam University, GCU, GIKI etc. are also approached somehow from industries. Of course there are some chances of improvements as like any man made system.

Your second point about the role of government in reducing gap between universities and industry, i agree. From some years, Pakistan has good conferences and workshops, but most of these conferences are still standing at the same place where they started many years ago (i will not mention their names). So the best place to reduce the gap is such kind of events. Conferences, workshops, seminars, summer schools are the meeting place for the persons for both areas. This initiative can be taken anytime instead of waiting for some help from anywhere.

I think now we are better than before and hence can be best in future. We now need initiatives and hope we will be soon at a level.

wish you good luck with your research but just to appreciate you that you are not alone, there are many Pakistani students doing excellent research but without any assistance. If I could be helpful to you, then don’t hesitate to contact.