The major reason for the dismal economic situation of the country is corruption and the feudal-type nepotism that sustained it over decades has infested the state and its institutions. Making money from kickbacks by bureaucrats and politicians who are in a position of power, selling jobs and stealing public money from welfare and development projects Pakistan has been looted over the years. What more, that looted money has not been re-invested in Pakistani economy but been transferred out of the country in cash (like Pakistani model Ayyan who was caught with half a million dollars in a suitcase that she was trying to take abroad for Mr. Zardari?) or through black bank accounts with the tacit help of bankers who also took their cut. The largest stint of state-abetted and sponsored corruption was the five years of Zardari rule when the country was looted blatantly and shamelessly.
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