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Despite a mushrooming of a large number of universities in Pakistan during the past two decades, the country still stands at 45th position among the countries of the world regarding the meaningful research. In comparison, India stands on the comfortable 7th position. Over ninety medical journals are being published in Pakistan, but none of them has been able to attain ‘W’ category in the HJRS software being run by Higher Education Commission (HEC). It looks that millions of rupees spent in the name of research in the country are going down the drain. A large-scale effort is needed at the national level to start public-private partnership to promote meaningful and useful research, which helps the country to speed up its growth in every field and to shine at the international level. For its part, Anaesthesia, Pain 28(3):405−407; DOI: 10.35975/apic.v28i3.2477 Received: April 18, 2024; Accepted: May 05, 2024
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