5th Five-Year Plans (1978-1986)
- initiated in zia period

Features
-To stabilize economy, improve the living slandered of the poor population. Increase defense expenditure and flood refugees after USSR invasion in Afghan in 1979. (international oil prize increased)
- Controls on industries were liberalized or abolished, the balance of payments deficit kept under control. Hence, pak became self-sufficient in basic foodstuff with exception of edible oils.

Result
- failed to boost private industrial investment though some national plan’s goals were attained. Due to invest on rural, the infrastructure developed. Moreover, pak managed to stock the food.