In re: A comparison of Pakistan's armed forces ecosystem with India's 

In Pakistan, armed forces officers are part of the economic elite. Apart from higher salaries & perquisites, they are part of the huge business empires run, officially by entities linked to the armed forces.

In India, armed forces officers are merely upper middle class unless they come from generational wealth. Their children increasingly tend to look to the corporate sector, journalism et al rather than following their father's.

Therefore most Indian armed forces officers today tend to be first generation and/or from middle-middle class or lower families - often children of the rank and file soldiers rather than officers.

PS:  In Pakistan, armed forces officers control the high end Defence Housing Authority and get allotments in it's layouts where other elites buy plots.
In India, nowadays armed forces officers get plots on the expressways where dangerous goons move around at night.