Local Government in Pakistan Tool for Legitimacy: A Case Study of Gen. Ayub Khan’s BD System
Keywords:
Local governments, Pakistan, Basic Democracy and Military regimes, LegitimacyAbstract
Pakistan inherited LG system from former British rulers. LG system before partition was
designed to ensure masses role in the affairs of government and to involve them at local
level. After the partition of United India the then government of Pakistan paid no
attention to local bodies system. Pakistan has experimented three systems of local
governments after partition. These were the Basic Democracies in 1959 and the Local
Government System in 1979 and General Pervez Musharraf’s Devolution of Powers Plan
2001. These three systems were designed in the tenures of military regimes. The main
theme of this study to find why Military ruler Ayub Khan used Local Government System
for the legitimacy of his dictatorship and assigned political role to a local government
institution.
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