Thirdly, private colleges stopped giving students exposure to laboratory work over one decade ago, and universities purchased simulation software and simulators instead of imparting practical experience. As R2 expressed, “it is strange to see university professors churning out 600 research papers and there is no hardware proof of any research”. If the research work was done without any experimental setup, then it is theoretical science, not the engineering. All software research without hardware is mandated to nowhere. Eight education boards in Punjab have decided to restart practical exam for 9th class with effect from 2015 (Higher Education Commission, Pakistan 2016). Private schools do not conduct practical (lab work) work nor demand students to complete practical copies. Schools get information of practical from educational boards somehow to help prepare students few days before the practical exam. They distribute solved notebooks of laboratory work among students to complete overnight. Private school networks are destroying the education system by saving money out of experiments.

Lastly, as R1 believed that “even if someone manages to obtain the degree, he cannot get a job due to racial discrimination in public service departments including universities”. The government has started appointing loyal junior officers to higher posts as bureaucrats used to do in the past. Inherited politicians and dual national bureaucrats are the root-cause of most corrupt practices. People are not aware of the outcome of privatization process, but they worry when the corrupt politicians and bureaucrats trumpet privatization, globalization, and internationalization. They bring their kith and kin as foreign consultants on fat salaries. Extremism in our society might not be any imported evil it could be the logical consequence of our biased policies and practices. Our incumbents straddle across religious and racial spheres. An ideological state with nukes facing widespread corruption, racial bias and extremism cannot have any place on the planet (Kalairet al. 2013). Consequent to such practices of appointing VCs and chief executives in academic institutions, the knowledge-based economy movement has already ceased (Ashfaq 2015). If we continue to remain wangled to wharfs of a dissolute racial bias then we are waiting for lightning which would never strike.