The Establishment is notable for its covert interventions and organization of military coups against the civilian government, and was reportedly behind the 1953–54 Constitutional Coup in the Dominion of Pakistan. Additionally, it has also organized the coups of 1958, 1977, and 1999. The Pakistan Army has been involved in enforcing martial law against elected civilian governments under the claim of restoring law and order in the country as is its role in the Constitution of Pakistan. It has dismissed the legislative branch and parliament a total of four times since Pakistan's creation, and maintains wider commercial, foreign, and political interests in the country. Due to this misbalance of power, the Pakistani military has faced allegations of acting as state within a state.