The military owns airlines and freight companies, petrochemical factories, power generation plants, sugar mills, cement and fertilizer plants, construction firms, banks and insurance companies, advertising agencies, and more. Vast tracts of prime real estate in cities, sold to officers for a pittance, have turned into mega housing developments.
只需看一看巴基斯坦的经济状况就一切明了。许多（如果不是大多数）公营及私营公司的首席执行官都是退役军人—许多还相对年轻。军方拥有航空公司和货运公司、石油化工厂、发电厂、糖厂、水泥和化肥厂、建筑公司、银行和保险公司、广告公司及其他各种企业。城市中大量的黄金地块以低廉的价格出售给了军官，进而被开发成大型的房地产项目。