Ownership and awareness of the democratic processes is essential for Pakistan to move on from the ‘transition phase’ to the ‘developed democracy’ stage. Having confidence and faith in Pakistan’s evolving democracy is of sheer importance. However, the fact that the youth of the country is especially disillusioned with the fruitfulness of snail’s pace of evolving democracy makes it rather harder. The disillusionment is visible through the brain drain phenomenon. Every year, a number of young students and labourers leave the country for good. The Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development classifies our human resource into various categories including professional, non-professional, skilled and un-skilled. There are a host of reasons responsible for the increasing brain drain trend. However, the major underlying reason is this disillusionment and lack of confidence in the continuity and fruitfulness of Pakistan’s democracy