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The Middle Class in Pakistan

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03.04.2026

Frequently, every individual who lives in any state or entity, regardless of its sovereignty, has heard that: if you do not interfere in politics, politics will interfere in your life. Hence, this scenario and these lines quite significantly reflect the entire political interest of a nation. The whole debate is not only about how and where politics will intervene in our individual and collective lives, but also what the ramifications could be. The answer to this question simply lies not only in what is predicted by government and institutional frameworks, but also in what politics truly is when deciding the future of economic balance and survival. All of the activism or drama influenced by any political ideology or philosophy is directly proportional to individual and collective life. In Pakistan, also, if anyone says that he is not interested in politics merely because he does not like it, then he is an immature citizen. Individually or collectively, politics and government policies are consequences of citizenship rights exercised through elections. We all have the right to vote; hence, the government is also formed through our combined efforts of selection. That is why governments are established and removed.

The main discourse in this article is about middle-class survival amidst and in the post-truth war that has been launched by nefarious Zionist ideology and American imperialism. The middle class talks less about these global problems and more about their inner struggle to live. After all, if government and global geopolitics negate 80 percent of the world population, then what remains is the “theory of survival of the fittest.” This theory is mainly an outcome of power—whoever has power survives; otherwise, they are slaughtered and fall into the dustbin. Could this theory still, in the practical world, allow the majority to live? Comparatively, if we contemplate the affluent class and the lower-income class, this concept is still thriving, where most decisions and standards of life favor the former class. This gap is morally obliterating and socially unacceptable. Now, we........

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