IN November 2024, during his visit to Karachi, Hon’ble Field Marshal General Syed Asim Munir spoke with the business community about important economic challenges and efforts to boost Pakistan’s economy. General Munir gave the business community his word that their issues and problems [particularly related to land grabbing and corruption] would be given top priority. In order to draw in more investment and encourage sustainable growth, he urged the business community to keep working with the Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC). But it’s unfortunate, the public have not yet seen any real advantages from projects specifically the Rs.600 billion southern Baluchistan package and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and SIFC pace of development projects have been hampered by poor governance, crime/drug mafia and land grabbing, a pitiful revenue department and administration, inefficient bureaucracy, the financial crisis/mismanagement, unstable political environment and ineffective service delivery [all to blame for the province’s slow progress].

There are series of cases demonstrate the non-existence of the rule of law, with the weaker facets of society being treated differently as “ordinary citizens” and the defense of their........

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