IN the middle of immediate political and economic crises, Pakistan’s leadership remains oblivious to a looming existential challenge that is to prepare Generation Alpha and Generation Beta for a rapidly transforming world. Developing nations, perpetually trapped in short-term survival cycles, face a severe structural disadvantage. Pakistan, ranking poorly on human development indices in South Asia, is a stark example of this systemic failure. Ongoing internal friction keeps both the state and its citizens entirely occupied, forcing a collective ignorance of the future. After all, as the ancient proverb reminds us, a hungry stomach has no ears.

This collective blindness directly collides with the reality that Generations Alpha and Beta are fundamentally distinct from their predecessors, inheriting an unprecedentedly volatile technological........

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