this cheema family has had a large number of civil servants, judges, police officials, federal ministers, and provincial ministers, and even a president of pakistan. many cheemas have immigrated, establishing successful careers in aid agencies, and armies amongst other professionals. cheema has a very strong political control in many districts such as gujranwala. cheema is the owner of many rice and floor mills such as ghulam haider cheema from aroop used to have the biggest rice and floor business in pakistan.