No more boomers

The World Inequality Report of 2026 shows that Pakistan's 1% of the total population holds 24% of the entire wealth of the country with the other 10% holding 59% of the total wealth with increasing gender disparity where female participation in labour has declined from 9.8% to 8.5%. The space for women is shrinking day by day. Welcome to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Make it make sense.

Write. Write. Write. In times where human rights are a mere idea and dialogue is mere rhetoric, the only way to garner and incubate new thought (not bring change) is to initiate dialogue. Change is a long road, as Tom Petty said. But he said it about love. That's a different debate.

Change in Pakistan is not achievable unless immunity makes way for common sense. Unfortunately, sense is not so common.

I have lost all hope in boomers and I am not scared to admit that. Call me a pessimist or a third-class citizen (we're already third-class citizens), I don't think the current lot of boomers are bound to bring about any change whatsoever. People who believe that expressing free speech is equivalent to questioning national security are a group of people who will never be able to provide a space for debate. Back in the day when Greeks were producing the best of minds, they were doing so by reading and thereafter debating their ideas. Bouncing ideas off of each other, engaging in thoughtful, engaging discourse. For debate and conversation, you need people who are true to their country, who welcome fresh ideas.

You can't have a conversation with someone who doesn't recognise that there is a problem. Post amendments, it has become clear that everyone recites the same script and they all have one thing in common, to stay in power. Nothing else.

When your kids live abroad, you hold property abroad, your bank accounts are abroad, then why are you here? To plunder. Once you lose power, you'll leave the country faster than any one of us will be able to say 'amendment'.

The only hope I have is from Gen Z, the young minds who are unbiased and have enough capacity to see things as they are.

Subsequent to my last piece published here titled 'Immunity (to wisdom)', I received a plethora of emails from youngsters from Pakistan and mind you, all of these individuals were either educated or going through college and they all seemed to have one question in common. How to exit the country.

The reason? They did not see a future here.

Was I amazed? No. Was I surprised? No.

It evades me as to why the rulers (not politicians) of the country are not worried about mass migrations. Understood, people tend to move for better opportunities but the numbers are staggering. Look them up.

Let me say it clearly for those who still haven't understood. Your young, educated and skilled labour are leaving the country while you continue to sing lore of patriotism.

You know why they are leaving? I'll tell you why.

Read the first paragraph of this article.

Once you've done that, let out an audible sigh, stare into the vacuum of your child's eye and tell me if you think the walls are closing in. I don't mind being the bearer of the bad news but I can tell you that the walls are definitely closing in.

People send hate mail to me saying all I do is criticise while not providing solutions. The thing is, I don't take your tax money and neither am I your parliamentary representative, I don't get paid to give solutions, the politicians do.

But here's some unsolicited advice. Leave the economy to the economists, the politics to the politicians and the research to the researchers.

Also, while we're already amending the constitution for fun, let's create a divorce between religion and politics, the way it used to be before military dictators started abrogating the constitution.

Spirituality can stay, though, she's okay.