By Lt.Gen. Kamal Davar, Quartz: “In July 2016, the Pakistani senate was informed that the armed forces run over 50 commercial entities worth over $20 billion. Ranging from petrol pumps to huge industrial plants, banks, bakeries, schools and universities, hosiery factories, milk dairies, stud farms, and cement plants, the military has a finger in each pie and stands today as the biggest conglomerate of all business in Pakistan.”
- "Pakistan laughingly says its fight against terrorists is ‘unmatched in the world’," Bill Roggio, FDD's Long War Journal