Why cricket is not a Pakistan national sports?

Well, I like hockey more than cricket. I find hockey more entertaining and interesting than cricket. :)

Question: Who made hockey Pakistan's national sport? I just know that it was somewhere around 1972 that hockey became Pakistan's national sport.

because when Hockey was declared as our national game, Our hockey was really best at that time .. but now we have forgotten about hockey and just gone crazy for cricket ... !

Well Like cricket, hockey was also brought by the goras in Pakistan and it WAS very popular at that time so made it a national game and we were actually very good if u see the history.
The question could be, why dun we make it our national sports now? hmm probably the govt does not pay any interest.

I think its because if we do that now, it will further discourage the whatever is left of hockey ...

the same goes for my country, there's this sepak takraw thing we have but basketball and soccer are more popular. however, i think the better question here is... are our cricket players being supported the way they really deserve to be? if yes, then good. i guess, cricket being a national sport is just a matter of paper and formality.

Reason is that , cricket was not so common in 1947, since 1948 hockey became our national sport. Not only us, but hockey is also national sport of India as well. What do you think about them?? At that time, this new game was quite recognizable in West and still it is there. It is us that we didn't focused on Hockey and its importance and got great loses in this sport, with time... but if we look at our past, we were champs four times World Cup in 1971, 1978, 1982 and 1994. This nation has won silver medals twice, in the 1975 and 1990 World Cup. Another huge achievement in 1994 was the Champions Trophy title.