Local Government Under Army Rule: A Comparative Analysis of Zia ul Haq and Pervez Musharraf Local Government System

Abstract

Military of Pakistan dominates the country. In this ruling system in order to establish democracy from the beginning the government initiates local government institutions. As Pakistan is playing its instrumental role in employing the principles of democratic system, the local government is the third branch of the dominion and an essential part of the administration.The chief objective of this study is to determine and analyze the performance of Local Governments in Pakistan under the military reign of Zia ul Haq, and Pervez Musharraf Local Government system and recognizing the challenges faced by the system and to check the similarities and dissimilarities between the local government systems.Zia ul haq presented the local government system with some specific feature. Mainly, the provinces and the Federally managed areas were given the independency to make their own local government laws which led to the disclosure of eight different ordinances. The second one, for the rural and urban areas, same local government laws were made to avoid contradictions and to bring pleasing effect in the rural and urban sectors by making it convenient to comprehend an invalidation of the guideline of democratic self-management in perspective of the immanent, component of bureaucratic control which did not permit the delegate component to gain remarkable aptitude in the management of local issues. To close, the period going before the destruction of Ayub Khan ruling, turned out to be a feeble time in the historical background of local government of Pakistan.

Keywords: Performance of Local Governments; Bureaucratic control; Rural and Urban sectors local government of Pakistan.

DOI: 10.7176/JESD/10-6-15

Publication date:March 31^st 2019