History Is Older Than Gen Z But Nation Lover Armed Forces
By: Ehsan Ullah and posted by Rida Zaheer
A recent article titled “It Is Over” by Zorain Nizamani has gone viral across Pakistani social media as though it announces a generational verdict and a political obituary. It declares that the era of the “boomers” is finished, that Gen Z has rejected the country’s institutions, and that Pakistan’s future now stands in moral and structural opposition to its present leadership. It sounds dramatic. It is also historically shallow. What is being mistaken for an ending is the most familiar phase of political cycles: youth frustration misread as civilizational rupture.
Gen Z is not witnessing the collapse of history. It is encountering its first conflict with it. The claim that patriotism has “failed” because young people are dissatisfied reduces nationhood to transactional comfort. Nations are not consumer services that function only when economic conditions are ideal. No generation in Pakistan — or anywhere — has inherited a perfect economy, flawless governance, or moral utopia. The very generation now being dismissed built institutions, expanded infrastructure, industrialized economies, and digitized governance under far harsher conditions than those faced today. To argue that patriotism exists only when comfort exists is to redefine citizenship as entitlement rather than belonging. The article celebrates Gen Z’s access to information as proof of superior awareness, while ignoring a critical truth: access to information is not wisdom. The internet does not produce clarity — it produces volume. Pakistan today is among the most digitally manipulated societies in the region, where misinformation often exceeds verified knowledge.
Earlier generations were not “less informed”; they were simply less algorithmically distorted. Gen Z insists it is “not buying what the boomers are selling.” Yet every platform through which it voices dissent — smartphones, social media, digital finance, online freelancing, even the language of digital rights — exists because of the technological, economic, and legal architectures constructed by earlier generations. Gen Z critiques a world it did not build using tools it did not invent. It has not yet produced a single foundational civilizational structure — yet already declares the existing one obsolete. That is not rebellion. That is impatience. The claim that censorship has failed and that authority has collapsed misunderstands power itself. Political systems do not collapse when they are criticized; they collapse when institutions disintegrate. Pakistan’s institutions remain functioning, contested, and evolving — not disappearing. Protest, memes, online satire, and digital dissent are not signs of extinction. They are signs of continuity. Nor is leadership “recycling” a uniquely Pakistani crime. Dynastic politics and entrenched party leadership dominate political cultures across South Asia — India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan alike. No major Pakistani party has implemented serious internal reforms such as leadership term limits or grassroots democratization. Without institutional reform inside political parties themselves, generational anger will change rhetoric, not structure.
The narrative that youth is “leaving” rather than reforming is not evidence of boomer failure — it is evidence of global mobility. Youth migration is a worldwide phenomenon driven by economic globalization, not political extinction. Exit is not revolution; it is participation in the same global system earlier generations created. And finally, the belief that Gen Z represents the end of manipulation ignores the oldest truth in history: every generation believes
it is immune to illusion — until it becomes the next one. Yesterday’s rebels are today’s boomers. Today’s Gen Z will one day be tomorrow’s dismissed elders. Civilizations do not collapse because youth become frustrated. They transform when institutions reform. And reform requires discipline, leadership, and structure — not memes, exits, and emotional revolt. History does not retire its elders. It simply waits for the young to learn what the old already know.
In short Pakistani Young gernation now released that a 73 old so called leader is just a nonsene and suffering jail because of his greedy attitude and proved himslef a the most corrupt person of Pakistan
