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Miftah Ismail, an economist who served as finance minister for five months in 2022, said fostering better educational and employment opportunities was vital to fighting Pakistan’s brain drain among the young.

“Instead of bemoaning their exit, why not provide them an enabling environment so they do not leave?” he said.

Nida Zehra, 26, a graduate student in the United States who left Pakistan in August 2022, has found work as a teaching assistant and hopes to stay on to pursue a career in journalism when she finishes her studies.

Zehra said she felt safer in her US university town than buy phone number list she did in her home city of Karachi.

“No one judges me and I’m treated on a par with my colleagues,” she said in a WhatsApp call.

“I think we have the right to decide on a better future for ourselves, even if it means leaving the country.”

Barrett Strong, Motown stalwart who sang ‘Money,’ dies at 81
Barrett Strong, an important figure in the early days of Motown Records who sang on the studio’s first hit single — “Money (That’s What I Want)” — and later co-wrote some of its most enduring songs, including “War,” “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” and “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone,” died Jan. 28 at his home in La Jolla, Calif. He was 81.

His son Chelson Strong confirmed the death but did not provide a specific cause.

Opening with an ebullient piano riff and the indelible lyrics “/But you can give them to the birds and bees,” the 1960 release of “Money” was a breakthrough moment for Berry Gordy Jr.’s nascent recording company, which was headquartered in a Detroit house emblazoned with the sign “Hitsville.