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At a restaurant in southern Poland, last week, I met a Pakistani server. He had been in Poland for a year. This young man defied many of the stereotypes we often associate with Pakistanis working in the food industry in Europe. He had gotten his undergraduate degree in Pakistan in applied geology, received an HEC fellowship to do a Master's in Hungary (in petroleum engineering) and then had gone back to Pakistan to work in the public sector. He tried his luck for three years, finding one door closed to him after another. In one particular case for a public sector job, he told me, he passed the requisite exam but was denied the position because his degree was in "applied" geology while the job was for someone who just had a geology degree, without the applied part! When he expressed his frustration to HEC staff, he found nothing but bureaucratic dismissals of his pleas. In another instance, the hiring managers were confused about how someone with a geology degree could get a Master's in engineering. After three........