Abstract
This paper tries to understand the working of federalism in Pakistan during
democratic era. studies have been made on the working of federalism in Pakistan
but centre Punjab relations during the period 2008 to 2013 is overlooked by the
historians and this paper attempts to fill up that important gap in the literature of
Pakistani history.In the history of Pakistan, the 18th amendment was a first brave
and great step towards the provincial autonomy, the autonomy with strong
legislative and financial powers. The role of main political parties and parties in
power at the centre and provinces must be given credit for this positive step of
constitutional transformation which helped strengthened the federation of
Pakistan. Therefore, underlying hypothesis of the study is that though relations
between the PPP (Government in the center) PMLN (Government in the Punjab)
never remained ideal during the period from 2008-2013, however both PPP and
PMLN showed more reasonable attitude towards’ each other and it resulted in
strengthening the federal structure. It helped them to bring a constitutional
amendment, namely, 18th Constitutional Amendment, in 2010 which further
strengthened the federal structure of Pakistan as it transferred concurrent list to
the provinces and restored parliamentary democracy as envisioned in the 1973
Constitution. Therefore, it is of immense importance to understand the nature and
character of Centre-Punjab relations in the context of the 18th amendment. In fact
this amendment was a fruit of good centre- Punjab relations
Farzana Arshad, Muhammad Iqbal Chawla, Anjum Zia. (2018) Re-contextualizing the 18th Amendment: Working of Federalism in Pakistan, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume 55, Issue 2.
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