Sixty years into our independence, we tend to gloss over who the real rulers of Pakistan were during our chequered history till 1971, and after the country was truncated, the 36 years since. The canard is that military rule destroyed democracy, no one speaks about the bureaucracy's role in initially bringing democracy as envisaged by the Quaid to its knees, and then benefitting hugely by the facade of successive military rule. The irony is that some bureaucrats, extremely close to ...