Literacy is by default the most important factor in any effort towards development and evolution. Many experts believe that this is the real reason why some of the countries of the so called third world, or some countries in Asia, such as Pakistan, are left behind when it comes to real and staggering development. According to the statistics, Pakistan has made some steps forward trying to educate its children, but still there is an impressive number of 13 million children that do not receive any education and instead work or hard labor jobs or even in the streets, being completely or almost illiterate.
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The future of software engineers can only be directly related to the quality and knowledge of those same software engineers who consider they may have a problem! Basically, if a software engineer has studied and qualified in the field they have chosen – i.e. that of a software engineer, then their skills are highly sought after throughout the world, regardless of which country they come from. The problem arises when somebody aspires to becoming a software engineer and attempts to find a shortcut into the IT industry without the knowledge, qualification and skills that are an essential pre-requisite of any professional. It is those people who put the future of software engineers in jeopardy. Software engineering seems to be an up-and-coming field and one that everybody seems to want to join but, as with any job, it is what you make of it and, to progress in this field [as in any other] you need to show some degree of promise and prove that you have something that makes you infinitely more employable than the colleague sitting next to you.
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The job market in Pakistan, generally, tends to fluctuate due to variations in Government policies that can have an adverse, knock-on effect on the job market and deteriorating law and order in certain parts of the country can prevent investors from even thinking about investing in industry – all of which results in lost job opportunities, not just in the IT field in Pakistan, but right across the board, in all job sectors. Global news reports of bomb blasts and ever increasing violence in certain districts of Pakistan continue to give the country a bad name. This is bound to have an adverse effect on the economy of Pakistan as many of the biggest potential investors are based in the US and, if their money is not deemed safe due to threats of violence,
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[Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal]
Between the years 1985 and 2004 the literacy rate in developing countries hovers between 68 – 77% according to the Global Monitoring Report issued by UNESCO. Averaging this out overall, the world’s illiteracy rates are about 82%. Except in Pakistan where literacy still remains at around 50% – not far above the 49% in Nepal and 43% in Bangladesh. If you compare these figures with India whose literacy rate is 61% and Sri Lanka which is a very impressive 90%. Even the various provinces show incredible variances: Balochistan, for instance has just 33% literacy rate with only 27% of the women in Balochistan being literate. So why, in a Muslim country, is there such a dire rate of literacy – not just amongst women, but generally?
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