Abstract
The objective of this paper is to analyze the role of bureaucracy and
local self-government in Pakistan. The local self-government system was always
introduced by military generals like General Ayub Khan, General Zia ulHaq
and General Musharraf. Decentralization model is always designed to distribute
the power to ensure the good governance. But in the history of Pakistan local
government models show that the working capacity and ability was different from
the designed structure. Musharraf gave the long term and inclusive system of
local government and system of good governance in 2001. Under the Devolution
of Power Plan new local governmental institutions were introduced with unique
powers and different roles in local affairs. All the local affairs were made under
the elected members. First time in the history of Local government bureaucracy
was made answerable to the elected member. Another change in local self government was made after the local government act 2013 which granted many
powers to the bureaucracy. In this research qualitative method of research has
used. This study analyses the powers and functional capacity of bureaucracy in
local self-government of Pakistan during the different systems.
Mehwish Muzaffar. (2020) Role Of Bureaucracy And Local-self Government In Pakistan, Journal of Political Science, Volume, Issue-1.
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