Did the older generation of Pakistanis fail its younger generation?

[Bigboii]

So I saw this post in another thread and it got me thinking/angry

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OnThisDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OnThisDay</a> 1999. Wasim Akram took his first hat-trick in Test cricket. His victims were Sri Lanka's Romesh Kaluwitharana, Niroshan Bandaratilleke and Pramodya Wickramasinghe <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cricket</a> <a href="https://t.co/FeQQu6YDb7">pic.twitter.com/FeQQu6YDb7</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1235870167613071364?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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must have been a great time to be a Pakistani during the 90s

GOAT, superstar bowler check
great team check
great music scene check
good television check
okish economy check

but generation after 90s got
garbage team
no superstar (babar finger crossed)
garbage economy
tons of debt
pathetic music scene and garbage Bollywood songs to look forward
crying women on Tv
Terrorists bombing everything in sight (imagine your childhood where you grew up listening to news about your neighborhoods engulfed by bomb blasts on a daily basis)

not a lot of feel good moments for people after 90s (there were some like CT, 2009 Amir, Shoaib Akhter against England, Wt20 but not a whole lot tbh if we compare it to the older generation)

So I think the older generation of Pakistanis were a massive letdown/failure who didn't work hard enough (or simply didn't care) to make the country a better place

Know I am not blaming all of the older generation for the mess because adults during the 40s,50s,60s built the country from the ground up and deserve massive respect but generations afterwards didn't give much thought to “nation building” imo

This is a rant against the older generation of Pakistanis who I believe ruined Pakistan, enjoyed all the glory, good times but handed the young generation a sick, old country to take care of…


(you hear lots of old people ranting about the younger generation why don't we flip the game )

 

[The Viper]

There was certainly no long term thinking from the older generation and unfortunately there is a continuation of policies from the past such as rampant corruption.

 

[Gayle_Force]

In general you are 100% correct. I would disagree a little bit specifically with cricket though as circumstances played a huge part.

It is no less than a miracle that Pakistan Cricket is still relevant given the isolation faced post the Lahore incident. Also, being excluded from IPL didn’t help. Also, in case of cricket the youngsters don’t help themselves either as they keep getting involved in fixing.