pak talent dominates world market
By Our Staff Reporter
LAHORE — Against all odds, the talented youth from Pakistan is dominating the international Information Technology (IT) and it is obvious from the facts released by the German Embassy in Pakistan.
According to Peter H Muerz, Counsellor, Head of Economics and Commercial Section of German Embassy, the applications of 4,713 of Indians and 4,112 Pakistanis were processed for allowing them work permit which enables them to work in Germany for two years.
However, despite having comparatively large number of applications only 839 Indians won the German card while 953 Pakistanis were able to win this facility with comparatively small number of applications. Pakistanis are eight per cent of the whole immigrant lot while the Indians are only seven per cent.
It is pertinent to mention here that the Indian State-sponsored Zee TV had run a story Wednesday night claiming that Indian IT professionals were dominating the opportunities in the German market too. Following this false and fabricated story, Zee TV had declared India as IT giant, a tall claim which it boasts of almost daily.
The German diplomat said that language is no more a bar or problem for the Pakistani professionals, who want to get German green card.
He said that professionals from all the fields, especially from website development and related fields (graphic designers), would be considered as IT professionals.
They would have to prove that they would be able to earn DM 1000 per month, after arriving in Germany.
Replying to a question about applying under this head, Muerz said that computer graduates from standard institutions would be more acceptable there.
He said that those planning to go to Germany should visit the www.bma.bund.de (English) for submitting their CVs.
He said that the processing would be done free of cost and these CVs would be referred to the concerned companies, which would finance the immigration of those individuals.
Germany has recently opened up its IT sector for the foreign IT experts as German economy is in dire need of IT professionals for the e-commerce sector.
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