Re: Going through the memory lane, I do not know if one should cry or laugh.
Actually, once Musharraf would be gone, these media would be happy to use their freedom to earn money and privileges from corrupts, and media would cover all corruptions and fallings of these corrupt and crook politicians.
Now, about how corruption would happen in Pakistan:
Corrupts would take huge commissions on government contracts. Regardless of need, government places order of goods and services at much higher price than they are worth (extra price paid goes to corrupts giving order)
Pakistan has 16 billion dollars with State Bank (it was below 1 billion dollars in 1999). Obviously these corrupt could not go to State Bank with briefcase to steal those dollars. What they would do is order goods worth 4 billion dollars but with invoice of 14 billion dollars. Those extra 10 billion dollars over the worth of goods would go in commissions to these corrupts.
When Zia died, Pakistan total debt was 13 billion US dollars (external) plus 350 billion rupees (internal). NS and BB took loans much more than interest on those debts and by the time Musharraf came to power in 1999, Pakistan had 38 billion dollars external debt plus 1550 (to 1600) billion rupees internal debt. Interest on external debt was over 3 billion dollars a year and interest on internal debt was around 250 billion rupees a year (note, these crooks NS and BB were taking debt at very high interest rates ... on external debt they were paying on average around 10 percent a year and on internal debt they were paying around 18 percent a year). It means that even if Musharraf government had not taken any new loan, just interest means that by now Pakistan external debt would have reached around 75 billion dollars (as interest is compounded) and internal debt would have reached around 5500 billion rupees (again interest is compounded).
Today, external debt is around 40 billion dollars instead of 75 billion dollars (that would have been without taking any new debt) and internal debt is around 4000 billion rupees (that would have been 5500 billion rupees without taking any new debt). It shows that over last 8.5 years, Pakistan government paid a lot of money to reduce debt what it could have been. Pakistan debt to GDP ratio, that was around 110 percent in 1999 is today around 52 percent.
Once these crooks when they would have complete control over Pakistan, I am pretty sure that they would start taking huge loan to steal, and that means economy would suffer, rupee would start devaluing in big way and debt would start increasing in big way. Unfortunately, most what they would borrow, they would spend on political projects and buying goods that Pakistan would not need, at 3 to 4 times the actual price (well, all above real cost would go to the bank accounts of political corrupts). Since every goods they would buy would have invoice, it would be difficult to prove anything other than that, something that is worth 1 million dollars was bought for 3 to 4 million dollars.
Actually, there are many ingenious ways these crooks do their corruptions. Problem is that, we would only see the result of their corruptions from factors in economy and how development would not be happening. Few of us would notice these corruptions clearly, but most ignorant Pakistanis would just keep their eyes close and would try to find one excuse or another.