Sometimes I wonder what the defining emotion of my generation is. Is it hope? Fear? Anger? Or is it simply exhaustion?

To be young today is to wake up every morning beneath an avalanche of headlines. Wars stream live onto our phones before breakfast. Economic crises become ordinary conversation. Political scandals no longer shock us; they merely compete for our shrinking attention spans. Climate records are broken almost every year, yet they are reported with the familiarity of the weather forecast.

For many young Pakistanis, the future no longer feels like a promise. It feels like a question mark.

Look around the world. The Jeffrey Epstein scandal did more than expose one criminal. It shattered public faith in institutions by revealing how wealth, influence, and power could shield people from accountability for years. The annual reports of organisations such as Oxfam continue to document a staggering concentration of global wealth, with billionaires accumulating fortunes at a pace unimaginable a generation ago. Meanwhile, news stories about Silicon Valley executives and hedge fund billionaires constructing luxury bunkers from New Zealand to underground facilities in the United States have become strangely ordinary, reflecting a growing anxiety among even the........

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