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CSS Economics of Pakistan P-II QUESTION #1700
Question 1
Pakistan's successive land reform programmes (1959, 1972, and 1977) were primarily driven by which overarching policy objective?
  • Accelerating rural-to-urban migration
  • Promoting large-scale industrial capital formation
  • Redistributing land ownership to enhance agricultural equity and productivity✔️
  • None of these
Correct Answer Explanation
Pakistan's land reforms — the Ayub Khan reforms (1959), Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's reforms (1972 and 1977) — were primarily aimed at redistributing agricultural land from large feudal landlords to landless tenants and small farmers, breaking up the feudal structure, enhancing agricultural productivity, and reducing rural inequality. They were not designed to accelerate urbanisation or industrialisation per se.