Immense mineral wealth waits to be discovered

Dr Samar Mubarakmand renowned scientist said that Pakistan is very fortunate and blessed with natural resources, we are sitting on the wealth of huge deposits of coal, copper, gold, silver, iron ore, lead, zinc, chromites and bauxite. Large gas fields and oil deposits may be lying under ground awaiting discovery.

He said that while addressing the 6th convocation of the Riphah International University at the Jinnah Convention Centre that “In order to break the shackles of present financial crunch we have to divert our brilliant human resource to the fruitful exploitation of our immense mineral wealth. With a single minded focus on this vision there is no reason why the economy of Pakistan will not take a giant leap forward.”

Nearly, 1,000 graduates and postgraduates of the university in various disciplines were awarded degrees at the convocation. They belonged to the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Management Sciences, Engineering and Applied Sciences and Computer Sciences.

Dr Samar urged the private sector to invest monetarily in these ventures while the intellectual input has to be forthcoming from the universities and research institutions of Pakistan. The irony here is that the government hires expertise from abroad, which is sometimes correct and sometimes incorrect bearing huge burden on our resources. It’s high time that the technologists from the country should come forth to discover our mineral and energy resources of the country.

The young engineering graduates to explore the field and not just sit in their offices. He said that they should be working on the field, as they are doing in the field and trying to fix gasifiers in Thar with a team of dedicated senior experts and young engineers to generate electricity from coalmines. God has given us wealth but it is a challenge for us and we need to explore it and turn it into energy so that we could come out of energy crisis.