Capitalism and Pakistan Landlords

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/world/asia/28swat.html?_r=1&hp

The NYT approvingly looks for displaced militia organizing landlords to return to Swat, otherwise it will amount to redistribution which will create a vested interest for the Taliban. Meanwhile, said landlords are refusing to let tenants plant crops on the vacant lands.

An aside asks what this portends for Punjab with its mega landlords and where sympathy for the Taliban is growing?

Look across the border, gents, where, also in Punjab, (much smaller) Punjabi landlords are using force to cut the wages of their immigrant labourers.

The motto of the story: you can't change Punjabi landlords but you can change their circumstances with a dose of representative government - not merely 'democracy' as practised by the Bhutto's and the army.