Description The military coup that brought General Pervez Musharraf to power as Pakistan\'s tenth president resulted in the abolition of a century-old sharecropping system that was rife with corruption.
Ostensibly meant to improve living conditions for tenant farmers, the new system, instead, mobilized one of the largest, most successful Land Rights Movements in South Asia--still activ.
In its place the military regime implemented a market reform policy of cash contract farming.
Description The military coup that brought General Pervez Musharraf to power as Pakistan\'s tenth president resulted in the abolition of a century-old sharecropping system that was rife with corruption