Military Role In Pakistan

The Pakistan military forces are the seventh largest military personnel in the world. The Pakistani forces are highly organized and play a vital role in the civil society. Since independence took place in 1947, the military forces have played a very important role in ensuring the safety of the nation and in holding the state together.

After independence, Pakistan declared itself to be a democracy however military has played a very strong role and taken interest in politics, which involves the overthrowing of corrupt politicians and finishing mismanagement in the state, this is why Pakistan has had four military martial laws put since independence. The military has had a very strong hold in the politics that before the government takes any step,

Moreover when the elections took place, East Pakistan won majority seats in their part and now it was clear that they wanted to become an independent state. This concluded that the political relations between the two frontiers were not good and due to this the military was again involved in the role of politics. In March 1971, Pakistan launched a military operation against Awami League (East Pakistan). The military was now fighting Awami League, Mukhti bandis and India due to political disagreements. By December, 1971 the Pakistan army surrendered to India in Dhaka and lost control. General Yahya resigned and handed the power to Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who was at a deputy primary post and he was the last civilian martial law administrator. Till 1972, the country was running on martial law until the Supreme Court declared that the policies of the military running the country were not right thus in 1973, the 4th constitution was

Some of them are directly built and owned by the army. Army is also involved in cooperate activities such as the running of dairy farms which are for the army use only. Others activities include security services and banking. The factories owned by the army also produce goods such as sugar and fertilizers. Pakistan army has also got the largest share in the stock exchange and it also operates airline, steels, cement, petroleum and energy. The army operates in the commercial sector as well, for example the Frontier Works Organization built the Karakoram Highway to China; and the Special Communication Organization maintained communications networks in remote parts of