During the past one decade, Pakistan became the victim of terrorism and therefore no significant foreign as well as overseas Pakistanis investment were observed. 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 its 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. Its a bridge between China and Arab Nation and further to developing African countries. 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. But how!!!
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. 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 its very evident that Chinas economy is the most dynamic and stable at the moment. China almost captured all the market from Australia to America. You have seen 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. Below mentioned statistics clearly shows how Chinese market penetrates the developed countries.
China is now the EUs 2nd trading partner behind the USA and the EUs biggest source of imports by far. EU goods exports to China in 2010 (113.1 billion Euro) whereas EU goods imports from China 2010 (281.9 billion Euro) Similarly African countries like South Africa gives special business facilities to Chinese. Language is the other language which is widely spoken in all parts of the American (South, Central and even North) continent besides Spain and some parts of Africa, so is very useful for the business and career point of view. Spain had many colonies around the world till the third quarter of last century, which are now independent states and are very significant and vibrant in the current geo-economic situation. Moreover, Spanish language is very similar to Portuguese which is also widely spoken in Portugal, Brazil, and even some part of African continent. Analyst also favours Brazil and other South American countries after China and India in the future booming market. Its also similar to Italian and French. This shows the importance of learning Spanish language atleast for career and business purposes.
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 labour force is working in these countries whose mother tongue is Arabic. Its spoken in more than 22 countries. Most of these Arabic speaking countries are oil-riched and business hubs. Arabic speakers are preferred in most of the job advertisements in these countries. However, its 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.
Now question arises how to cater this problem for our young generation. Although, we produce some fine crops and have skilled personnel but is it enough without job and business opportunities? In Europe, its mandatory to learn some foreign languages. For Example, Germans, Danish, Swedish usually learns Spanish which is widely spoken around the world, especially in South America, Central America, and even in USA and Canada besides in Spain. This is not only beneficial for tourism purposes only but businesses purposes as well. 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.
Whereas we can amalgamate Arabic language within our Islamic studies subject, so that we not only learn Arabic as language but can also understand our religious studies in a better way. Its not very complex issue rather it has tremendous practical benefits. This may improve our socio-economical problems as well as geo-political relations with our neighbouring countries. We always taught in our books and literature that Pakistan is a country which is located in a very strategic and geo-economically area but never take the benefit from this geo-economical presence. Alongside the production of high quality crops and technological products for export purposes, now its high time to utilize all these above mentioned options and improve our nations youth prospects which would definitely helpful in strong and stable Pakistan.
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