Re: Pakistan military runs 55 firms
Read my posts - it is because its budget is insufficient to cover the benefits package used to ensure healthy recruitment. The money raised by military run businesses is used to educate the families of current and former servicemen, to provide them with a high standard of free healthcare, to provide pensions, and to provide retraining for servicemen who leave.
The reason why the military must run businesses is because it does not receive funding from the government for its benefits programme. It must therefore run successful commercial ventures to raise these additional funds, or scrap welfare schemes and experience a corresponding drop in recruitment and retention.
Education:
2 Colleges
64 Schools
130,942 university scholarships
Vocational:
9 Technical Training Centres
66 Vocational Training Centres
2 Computer Science Institutes
Medical:
12 Hospitals
24 Day Health Centres
69 Pharmacies
Access to these benefits is for:
Released, retired and discharged personnel of the Regular armed forces who are citizens of Pakistan.
Legally wedded wives and widows of the above personnel.
Sons of ex-servicemen up to the age of 18 years - and beyond for education and technical training stipends.
Unmarried daughters of ex-servicemen - and divorced daughters until remarried.
Invalid sons of ex-servicemen for medical treatment (No age bars.)
Cadets of service academies invalided out of service for disabilities attributable to military service.
The military run businesses employ former military personnel rather than civilians simply because post-service employment is another benefit for military people.