Blaming politicians alone for the menace of corruption in Pakistan is unjust, since such rampant corruption can take place only with connivance of paid servants of the state, be they part of civil bureaucracy or uniformed services. Collapse of an illegal Pharmaceutical factory in Lahore points to financial and administrative indiscipline that infects our civil bureaucracy, police, regulatory bodies and lower judiciary. This follows contaminated killer drugs that were manufactured in Karachi and collapse of substandard buildings, barrages, roads and bridges in other parts of the country, resulting in deaths of thousands of innocent citizens. It is patronization of such illegal and criminal activities by our bureaucracy, law enforcement agencies, state regulatory bodies that lead to accumulation of assets and ill-gotten money by paid servants of state whose job it is to protect public interest. These servants of the state cannot own assets abroad and live beyond their means if they were doing their jobs honestly. The factory which collapsed in Lahore could not have functioned without knowledge and consent of LDA, SNGPL, LESCO, WASA, police and drug regulatory bodies or public funded hospitals which procure their drugs. The Karachi based Elferoze pharmaceutical company should have been checked by the Sind Drug Inspectors whose job it was to check these drugs. Similarly thousands of missing containers loaded with weapons and other contra banned smuggled goods could not have gone missing without complicity of FBR, Police, KPT security and all intelligence or law enforcement agencies working from Karachi to Torkham. Killers of thousands of innocent citizens gunned down in Karachi cannot escape prosecution without protection of local police, city administration and those who wield political power in that city. Land grabbing mafia of Pakistan is having a bonanza because of corruption infected civil and cantonment boards or Evacuee Property Trust. Our railway, national aviation industry and road transportation system has been destroyed by nexus between paid servants of the state assigned to regulate and control them and ruling political elite. MALIK TARIQ, Lahore, February 7.