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In Pakistan, the military is considered powerful and is part of what is known as The Establishment. They control the state through a backdoor and part of deep state.

Modus operandi: Reinforcing deep-state dominance

Control over politics: Selected PMs, coups and military dictators

The Establishment in Pakistan, which has ruled Pakistan through direct military dictatorship as well as through control over the powerless civilian governments, is responsible for its strategic policy of state sponsorship of terrorism by Pakistan. FATF, USA, EU, India and many other intergovernmental organisations and nations have described Pakistan as the state sponsor of terrorism, and several former and serving Prime Ministers as well as the top army general have admitted to this fact.

Control over economy: Military owned Pakistan's largest business conglomerations

The Establishment's runs Pakistan's largest business conglomeration with more than 50 business entities worth over US$20 billion; owned through Army Welfare Trust, Bahria Foundation, Fauji Foundation and Shaheen Foundation; runs Pakistan's largest business empire ranging from petrol pumps to huge industrial plants, banks, bakeries, schools and universities, hosiery factories, milk dairies, stud farms, and cement plants, as well as 8 jewels in their crown Defence Housing Authority townships on prime lands across Pakistan in which awards military personnel farm lands and housing plots.

Control over government policy: Political Islam driven

The Establishment has control over the foreign, and domestic policy of Islamisation of Pakistan.

According to the historian Professor Mubarak Ali, textbook "reform" in Pakistan began with the introduction of Pakistan Studies and Islamic studies by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1971 into the national curriculum as a compulsory subject and the military dictator Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, under a general drive towards Islamization, started the process of historical revisionism in earnest and exploited this initiative. 'The Pakistani establishment taught their children right from the beginning that this state was built on the basis of religion – that's why they don't have tolerance for other religions and want to wipe-out all of them.'

In popular media

The criticism in media include Ayesha Siddiqa's Military Inc. about Pakistani military's economic activities and consequences; several books by Husain Haqqani including "Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military" and "Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding"';. Ayesha Jalal's "Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia", "The state of martial rule: the origins of Pakistan's political economy of defence" and " The struggle for Pakistan: a Muslim homeland and global politics"; Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri's "The Intellectual and Ideological Basis of the Establishment of Pakistan"; Christophe Jaffrelot's "Pakistan Paradox: Instability and Resilience"; Government of Pakistan's "The Establishment Manual".

A Mighty Heart movie details journalist Daniel Pearl's kidnap and murder. Among numerous bollywood movies are J. P. Dutta's Border and LOC Kargil.

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• Military of Pakistan
• Civil–military relations
• Criticism