Foreign investors are eyeing Pakistan’s agricultural land and the government is entertaining their offers. But will Pakistani citizens benefit at all in the long-run?
It’s not happening in Pakistan alone. Prime farmland in other developing countries is also being acquired by foreign investors, mainly from the West and the oil-rich Middle Eastern countries.
Afraid of a land-rights precedent being set, feudals persistently block the attempts of the Khaskheli tribe to regularise the village they have lived in for 40 years.