Unity of Engineers
as a Nation

The infrastructure to the socio-economic life cycle of any country lies in correlation with its engineering sector. Engineers are like the building blocks in the development of any country and nation. Unfortunately, in Pakistan engineering is weak and in the most deprived condition at the moment. Many engineering societies, organizations, and groups are portraying their struggles to revive the engineering sector. But on the contrary, no tangible steps have been taken by any of these well-established and greatly funded organizations. The members of these organizations are mostly young engineering graduates or students. But the heads of these organizations are obsolete and belong to the archaic school of thought which makes them the weakest pillars of the engineering sector.
Pakistan is in dire straits economically, financially, and socially. At this time this nation needs to be uplifted in every aspect of life. We can say this time, these hardships could be a blessing in disguise. Because nation-building process starts usually when the nations face difficult times, which could be dangerous for their existence
Almost every engineer got the same repentance as the whole community is facing similar issues but failed in propagating their voice as a whole just because of lack of unity. The word “Unity” doesn’t means having huge representation on roads only but it also means uniting the thoughts and channelize them through different platforms in the most effective ways devised by the engineers themselves. We as a nation are diverted from our roots and in the same way every community is also fractionated in terms of different belongings, different universities, even for different political beliefs, highs, and lows under the umbrella of different organizations with almost same manifestos. In order to eradicate these divisions we all have to rethink our mindsets and clean the mind lens. But this time based on similarities as we all want to see development in every sector of our country. We all want to be independent, we all want to see the happy faces of engineers, we all want to see our country competing with the first world, and a lot more similarities from our appearance to our thinking and beliefs. These similarities should be the basis for a rethink because it will convert these divisions to integrations by eradicating a few dissimilarities and hence the nations will start building up.
My humble message to the of my whole engineering community of Pakistan is “Let’s join our hands together as the profession needs us. Together we can change the fate of this reeling engineering profession just by changing the way of our thinking, the approach towards dealing with the differences, the real recognition of politics in engineering disciplines or at the country level, and by distinguishing the good from the bad.