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That reads literally like some sort of Italian gang with 'made men' at the top. So essentially, the rot goes down all to the very lower ranks in some shape or form and is very present at the middle and higher ranks. There has to be some professional cost for all their extra-curricular activities, every man has the same 24 hours in a day.

At a personal level, I have found PAF officers to be far more professional and technical than PA (I've only ever met one retired Navy officer so can't say much about them). This 'divided attention' surely plays big part in this. However this trend is fast changing. PAF is starting to get into 'Shaheen Foundation' umbrella businesses and other shenanigans (still much less than Army).

I would caution that this is not a blanket evaluation of every officer or personnel and is more of the on and off sample set with folks who may be very professionally focused throughout every unit and then folks who are basically unfit and ready for major retirement stage who are using their position to secure their future.

So this analysis cannot be taken as carte blanche to frame every PA officer or for that matter every PAF officer. Im fairly close to PN so there the involvement in extra curriculum activities is less of a share to the PA who by design push scraps to the rest of the forces - essentially the case of “us first” and then later.
This isn’t just confined to business but even appointments in retirement or military attaché positions.