If we don't use technology, our fate will be like dinosaurs, Ahsan Iqbal

Federal Minister for Development and Planning Ahsan Iqbal has said that the government has many projects but no money. If we do not use technology, our fate will also be like dinosaurs.

He expressed these views on the occasion of the expansion of the civil department and the inauguration of the Computer System and Information building in NEDU University. Federal Minister for Planning Ahsan Iqbal added that in the last four years, the economic conditions of the country have forced us to think about which projects to close and which to continue. Countries that focus on imports have developed, but our policies are such that we don't focus on imports, we are left behind due to substandard goods, and countries that have developed have focused on imports.

The federal minister said that our effort is to make the country economically strong, we are a nation that is going through difficult times, but this time will also pass, he said that the current government has plans for the country. There is a lot but no money, so we have to cut the development budget. He said that when we came to the government, there was unrest in Karachi, and there was long load shedding. Ending the darkness, the government gave more than 400 billion rupees to the Pakistan Army and gave a mandate to the armed forces.

Ahsan Iqbal said that the political situation of other countries, including India, China, Bangladesh and Vietnam, which were lagging behind Pakistan due to the continuous democratic process, became stable and they went ahead of us.

He said that in the 75-year history of Pakistan, there was no development budget for the last quarter, and zero was released. There are, the spirit of 2013 is needed so that the country can be turned around. The future of Pakistan is from the availability of technology. The engineering university has a key role in the reconstruction of Pakistan.

Ahsan Iqbal said that engineers also have a responsibility to understand the problems of Pakistan and play their role. He further said that technical equipment will be purchased soon for the top engineering universities of the country at a cost of six and a half billion rupees, which include the UET universities of Balochistan, Taxila, Lahore, Peshawar, Karachi and Lahore Engineering University and NED. The university will be given the position of excellence university at the international level.

He said that the PhD of 2018 is more informed than the PhD professors of the nineties, the faculty must be updated, in the modern era machines are doing what humans used to do, and almost in the near future. Children are in schools today, the jobs they will be doing have not yet been created in the market, and a billion workforce has been displaced as a result of automation, if we don't take advantage of the new potential with an eye on the future, we will be dinosaurs.