The current government of Pakistan arrested former Prime Minister Imran Khan, resulting in riots in the country, many people say that this is the result of the Americans, this problem is too big, let's not say, let's discuss the power game of several major Pakistani families in recent years, resulting in today's phenomenon is not unrelated to the power and interest game of several major families. How is power played? First of all, it is necessary to sort out some factions in Pakistan.
The first faction is called the Bhutto family, which has a hundred years of history and is the largest landowner in Pakistan. Pakistan consists of four provinces, Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. The largest province is called Punjab, followed by Sindh. The Bhutto family is the largest landowner in Sindh. When Pakistan was founded, the founding father was Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Behind Jinnah is the Bhutto family. After Jinnah's death, Pakistan's first "democratically elected" president was Ali Bhutto of the Bhutto family, of course, the word "democratically elected" here should be put in quotation marks. Because the Bhutto family is a large landowner and employs a large number of tenant farmers, it is conceivable that the Bhutto family can manipulate a large number of votes.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
When the president took office, his first consideration was how to benefit his family. At that time, there were no banks in Pakistan, so the Bhutto family established the first and now largest bank in Pakistan - Union Bank. At the same time, the Bhutto family also owns the Pakistan National Oil Development Company and Pakistan Telecommunications Company. Almost all of Pakistan's energy and finance are monopolized by the Bhutto family. As you can imagine, the Bhutto family is super rich. Such a monopoly on national wealth will naturally cause dissatisfaction among the people. So the second faction appeared.
Military representative Zia Haque
The second faction is Pakistan's military. The first thing the military did when it came to power was to remove President Ali Bhutto from power, march in public and execute Ali Bhutto. But the military has no way to uproot the Bhutto family, after all, after so many years, the Bhutto family is very strong. Moreover, the Bhutto family is the representative of hundreds of landowners large and small in Sindh. The Bhutto family united these landowners to form a party called the People's Party. The BJP is one of the largest parties in Pakistan. And the Bhutto family, as the voice of the people's party, is not easy to move. Therefore, the military can only vent the anger of the people.
Ali Bhutto, who was hanged for treason
After the military came to power, it should be supposed to develop the economy and build the country, but the military is only good at armed struggle, really will not engage in economic construction, in order to divert the attention of the people, the Pakistani military once again provoked India and began the India-Pakistan war, but the Pakistani military could not fight from beginning to end and surrendered. When the news reached the country, angry civilians rushed directly to the government building and beat up the junta executives. The military lost popular support and had to step down.
Nawaz Sharif
So the third faction, the Sharifs, appeared. Pongjab Province, the largest province in Pakistan, also has the most fertile land in Pakistan, with more than 50% of the population, and almost all of Pakistan's industrial base is in Pongjab. And many of these industrial companies are owned by the Sharif family. The Sharif family provided a lot of financial support when Jinnah was founded, and in order to give back to the Sharif family after the founding of the country, the Sharif family opened a company called Itfak Industrial Group. And this enterprise is the China-Pakistan friendship channel. This is the company that Pakistani contractors for many projects between China and Pakistan.
After coming to power, the Sharif family really had the intention to do a good job in the economy and construction. To develop the economy, it is necessary to build infrastructure, so building the country and building infrastructure has become the main policy of the Sharif regime. Roads were built, railways were built, railway stations and airports were built, and it seemed that the situation was good, and everything was developing in a good direction, but then I don't know which force suddenly broke out, and almost all orders for national infrastructure projects were handed over to the Itfak Industrial Group, owned by the Sharif family. After the incident was reported, everyone dug deep and found that the country's largest steel, coal, real estate and other related infrastructure companies were all subsidiaries of Itfark Industrial Group. That is, the newly appointed national leader continues to use the state for the benefit of his family. In the process of fermentation of public opinion, another family played a role in it.
This family is the Shujat family, which controls the largest private media conglomerate in Pakistan, GEO. Shujat and Sharif have had a bad relationship. This goes back to the early days of Pakistan, when the father of the nation, Jinnah, founded a party called the Mu Party, the full name of which is the All India Muslim League Party. Since then, the Muslim Party has been split in two by Sharif and Shujat as rivals, and the two sides have looked at each other unfavorably. So after Sharif's tainted incident broke, Shujat, who controls the national private media company, must have stepped on it. After the frantic reporting and revelations of Shujat Media, Sharif had to step down. Sharif's successor was a member of the Shujat family, but the Shujat family's economic failure caused strong dissatisfaction among the people, so the military came on again and pushed the president of the Shujat family from office.
We can see that neither the People's Party nor the Muslim Party actually represent the people, but only the interests of the nobility of a certain party. As an ordinary person, if you want to get ahead, joining the military is the only way out, and if you are lucky, you may also be mixed with high ranks. All the remaining possible upward development channels are controlled and divided up by these major families. In the past, due to the underdevelopment of the media, people had few ways to obtain information, and it was easier to be hoodwinked, but now the transmission of social information is very convenient, and the people have more rights to know, and slowly understand the shady behind the operation of the country.
Imran Khan, a young cricketer
When the Pakistani people felt that the country was so corrupt by these families, and when they were extremely dissatisfied, a Pakistani national hero, Imran Khan, appeared. Imran Khan was just a cricketer who led his national team to victory over the then sovereign power, Great Britain. This gave a shot in the arm to his own nation and was regarded as a national hero by the Pakistani people. Imran Khan founded a party called the JEM and came to power in accordance with popular support. The first thing he did after coming to power was to target several major families. But these families control all the livelihood industries in Pakistan, and they raise the price of food, clothing, housing and transportation for all the people related to the people's livelihood. The cost of living of the common people has become higher, and it seems that life is more difficult than when the Bhutto and Sharif families were in power, so the people were dissatisfied with the Imran Khan government, and Imran Khan had to step down. As soon as they stepped down, these families immediately found a reason to arrest Imran Khan. This is a general cause of civil strife in Pakistan.
Imran Khan
The struggle for power in Pakistan will not end. The entire regime in Pakistan has formed a cycle, the major families take turns to come to power, no matter which family controls the country, the first thing to do is to benefit their own family or interest groups, to the extent that the people are unbearable, the military will come forward to overthrow the government, the military does not have the ability to balance the entire aristocratic group, does not have the strength to develop the economy, build the country, so the regime will repeatedly fall into the hands of the major families. This is the current state of the power game in Pakistan.