| This administrative power melds with the military's
already enormous commercial enterprises, which dominate
large parts of Pakistan's economy with a network
of companies that make products such as breakfast
cereals, milk and fertilizer. The military's business
ventures include an airline, an FM radio station,
a pay-TV channel, insurance, real estate and travel
agencies, and one of the country's largest banks.
All this in a nation that devotes a very high 29%
of its budget to the armed forces, according to
the World Bank.
Critics call this the relentless militarization
of Pakistani society and charge that the generals
who seized power promising to rid the country of
corruption are now supervising a more subtle form
of it.
Paul
Watson: Military Inc. dominates life in Pakistan |
