Pakistan is a very unfortunate country that it has lot of talent in various fields of life. The reason I said unfortunate because we always get failed to take advantage of our local resources and outsiders take full advantage of them and use them for their economy. We have habit to ofend local talent due to some lame reason whether it’s field of science and technology,education or arts, we love to ignore our talent and when it’s respected by others then we run after them. The very latest example is Pakistani comedians like Shakil Teeli,Kashif Khan and Rauf lala who were never respected in Pakistan but when India gave them respect then they are now invited in different cermonies. Irony!

Two and half years back I made a post about some local talent which were not respected in home which made an excuse to leave this country and earn outside. I mentioned about Adnan sabzwari who had made Pakistan’s first animated movie back in 90s when we could not think about animation in Pakistan then I made a post on the occasion of Pakistan’s 60th birthday and made an attempt to pay tribute our IT stars who made us proud in outer world. Most of people mentioned in that post left Pakistan for sake of better future since they were not able to do much in this country which actually pays more respect to ignorant and illetrate politicians than talented people.

Recently I came across an interview about a local IT talent in Jang paper who made a software to overcome plane hijacking.

Meet Ibad Ahmad who belongs to IT field. Ibad has made an anti-hijacking system which can regain the control of plane with in a minute!Yes, within a minute.

Details of the system are not mentioned( and I can understand the reason) . The article says he and his pals started this project but all of his pals got disappointed and leave him but this courageous guy never gave up and kept trying and one day he became successfull.

The thing which actually impressed me is NOT the technology but his passion for this country. When the interviewer asked him that why didn’t he sell his solution to some foriegn or 3rd party company, he said, “My objective is not to earn money only, I want to open the doors for other youngesters as well. If I would have sold this system to someone then could I serve my country?”

Amazing, simply amazing. This guy deserves to be respected but the question is, can our appreciation be helpful for him? Like majority of youngers, Ibad is pretty much disappointed about the future of software development in Pakistan.

Ibad has given a deadline of 18th Feb. After that like many other fresh brains, he would also fly to US or Europe where he would be given a respect which he deserves and money which he could not get in Pakistan. I am sure Ibad would not feel comfortable since it would give him pain that his services are not being helpful for his own people. When Ibad will get famous in western world due to his work then we would come out of ignorance and think, “Oh , he’s the same guy who made something for our comfort but we threw him out”. we will then respect him and give him job offers. In urdu there is an idiom, Thook kay Chaatna. we are like such people. Curse upon us. I don’t know how many more Ibads we have to lose. All I know that we have to stop this brain drain anyway. If we really have to export something then we should export our flith in the form of politicians so that it could be helpful for us. I just hope that someone read about him and can do something for his product.

Ibad also claims that he could make a security system which can guard banks,pumps etc and there would be no need to hire guards. Ironically he’s not being taken seriously. We literally going to lose a gem due to our ignorance. I don’t know how to stop this guy. Can you stop Ibad for sake of this country?

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