SB is right, paper quality is better now, partially because type writers are replaced by computers and printers, which use a certain standard paper quality. Plus there's also lesser paper work. STill I agree the govt offices have always used very low quality paper, maybe to cut costs, and they should use better quality.
I have worked in both the Govt and Private sectors - there is a lot of difference between the two! Government still relying on manual works and if using computers, they use it as only a typewriter - even some fools put sums manually in an excel sheet instead of using excel formula!
Thanks for those comments ... it sort of opens up the discussion to other topics, different but related. In that the roads, infrastucture and electronic centralised payment system need a lot of work in Pakistan to bring the country in to the modern day. If the government want taxes to be paid then we have to start PAYE in Pakistan.
Also, a lot of community initiatives need to get moving so people are catering for their communities as well as for themselves. I guess this may vary from place to place. The richer towns will be more like this I guess. However, I sense there is a lot of zaati competition in Pakistan and no one wants to think themselves a walkover or a fool for doing work that they not getting paid for.