Local PhDs.

IT is unfortunate that doing a PhD from Pakistan is not considered worthwhile and respectable in academia itself. Anyone who has a PhD from a Pakistani university is given secondary importance, if any is given at all.

There is no denying the fact that the standard of our educational institutions is not comparable to that of foreign universities.

But this does not warrant casting a blind eye to someone's talent and expertise. Some of the institutions go to the extent of not allowing their own faculty members to study for a PhD from a Pakistani university.

If the educational institutions and academicians will themselves remain biased...