Pakistani-American theoretical physicist and mathematician Amer Iqbal had to leave the country and instead teaches Harvard now after unearthed a big scam at a government college, Pervez Hoodbhoy revealed in an article published in a local news outlet earlier this week. Iqbal left Pakistan on January 17 and he was offered a job by the Harvard University within 15 days. It is quite worrisome that brilliant teachers are being forced to leave the country and go settle abroad, remarked Anchor Kiran Naz. Steven Weinberg, a Nobel laureate in Physics, even called Iqbal to help with his research at the University of Texas. “Many academics just know one mathematician from Pakistan and that is Iqbal,” Hoodbhoy added.

Source: Pakistan Today February 06, 2020 17:26 UTC