Anjum Niaz, a US based weekly columnist in Dawn discusses the ailments of the civil services of Pakistan and dissects the roots and causes.
This is an intersting analysis and the writer has remained impartial and has not generalized and has avoided prejudice. She thinks blame is to be shared by all, as and when guilty, not just one cadre. She also speaks on the purely civil form of corruption and the quota system too.
http://dawn.com/weekly/dmag/archive/060409/dmag18.htm
“The CSPs may have developed outsized egos. They may have taken themselves too seriously. Some may have become arrogant, others haughty. Their wives may have thrown their weight around as big begum sahibas and terrorized the lesser beings around them. Their children may have been conscious of their daddies’ pelf, power and perks. Their relatives may have tried using their connections for getting petty work done.”
Sequel to the above article, with focus on the military angle;
http://dawn.com/weekly/dmag/archive/060416/dmag17.htm
“How many homes and more importantly in which posh areas of Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi belong to the bureaucrats? Next: what are their children doing and more importantly how many of them studied abroad; how many bagged scholarships from here, there and everywhere because their daddies wangled them? Finally, where did their wives get all that money to wear diamonds, drive those luxury cars and live princesses’ lifestyles as if there was no tomorrow?”
The civil share of the total amount of corruption; something we were discussing here in a thread few days ago. Corruption is corruption and is as bad whether in uniform or without.