China has laid bare an educational policy after announcing
the Belt and Road Initiative which has transformed China into a hub for
international students. The student body jumped from almost 55,000 students in
2006 to nearly 440,000 students in 2016, according to China’s Ministry of
Foreign Affairs (MOFA). While the CPEC is the flagship project, Pakistani
students are flocking to China to enroll in technical courses and mostly to
attain professional degrees. Last year, a data released by China Scholarship
Council (CSC) —a nonprofit organization headed by the Chinese government’s
Ministry of Education— revealed that there was an astronomical surge from about
9,500 Pakistani students in 2012 to around 30,000 students in 2019. It stands as
the fifth-largest source of international students flowing into China after US,
Russia, South Korea and Thailand.
In fact, Pakistani students have spread out in every university in China with
different level of scholarships. For instance, Master students get around 70,000
Rs, PhD students get around 80,000 Rs, and Post-Doctorates more than 200,000 per
month, of particular note, these students enter China without qualifying HSK,
ILETS, TOFEL, GRE, GMAT, etc. If I would discover the exceptional feats of
Pakistani students in China, people in my country would go into the state of
numbness and shock. As we know the image of our country in international arena
is marked with unbalanced economy, fragile governance and security to rampant
terrorism, but China and Turkey ignored this poor image and embraced us. When a
Pakistani person introduces himself in China, he will be welcomed with Chinese
proverb “ba-tie” meaning “Iron brother” and same is true in Turkey.
As a nation, a nagging foible in our attitude has tarnished our image
everywhere. Can Pakistan be considered a fortress of Islam? Of course, not. It
has never demonstrated any Islamic teachings practically since independence. We
have inherited the political, bureaucratic, educational, judicial to societal
systems from British. It is the universal truth that you can not be creative in
some other language. One of the grave problems in our country is that we speak
multiple languages with respect to the rendezvous like at home we speak our
mother tongues, in schools and universities we have to speak our official
language English, while in rest of place we speak our national language Urdu.
Resultantly, we have no command on any single language which makes us a confused
nation. Hence by having traits of confusion in personality, we are verbally
Muslims and practically Non-Muslims. Unfortunately, we are manifesting this dual
personality in China.
Chinese society is an invaluable asset to the world because it has no definite
order or shape in today’s date. On one hand it has five thousand years of rich
historical culture, philosophy, tradition, architecture, religion, festivals,
music, on the other hand, the lives of Chinese new generation are caricature of
western norms and culture. Their family structure is collapsing with each
passing day because of adapting western life styles. Being namesake Muslims,
Pakistani students in China are going far beyond the footsteps of Chinese new
generation. Here is a tip of an iceberg: students are busy in cultivating
illegitimate relationships; they are notorious for debauching young girls and
divorced women, they attend late night parties at bars with concubines, and are
excessively drinking. Even the holy month of Ramadan is not honored,mostly
medical to PhD students are earning hundreds of Chinese Yuan¥ by teaching
kindergarten kids with fictional representation ofwestern to African
nationalities as English is not their native language, if they apply job as a
Pakistani they would be rejected out rightly, in this way their actual names
reconstruct fromDanial to Deneal, Maryam to Merry, Jaffer to Jefferyand they
conned their way in to the job which is illegal by having student visa. Their
eccentric conduct gives an impression that they have just been released from
some dungeon. The purpose of traveling to China was to earn knowledge through
research and hard work, but all in vain and unfortunately went astray. With this
phony character in hand, these students left no stone unturned in accusing
Pakistani politicians for corruption, maligning Pakistan Army in interfering
politics and blaming Pakistani media for blacking out the news, instead they
must ponder on this idiom “Doing a little soul searching of one’s own” or
“apnegreban may jhankna”. Only a handful of students out thousands are engaged
in studies, research and busy in achievement of ambitions. With the passage of
time, the image of Pakistani students is tarnishing. Their wickedness towards
Chinese girls and deception towards purpose in China are exposing gradually,
with hindsight, the time soon may arrive when Pakistanis might be banned to
enter China.