PML‑N: A Reluctant Convert to Federalism?

While the osten­si­bly inex­orable slump of Pak­istan crick­et con­tin­ues, it has increas­ing­ly come to resem­ble and reflect the broad­er social and polit­i­cal behav­iour­al pat­terns.

The Challenge of Federalism in Pakistan

Fed­er­al­ism can be defined as a sys­tem in which the pow­er and author­i­ty to gov­ern is con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly divid­ed at two lev­els into two gov­ern­ing bod­ies, usu­al­ly called cen­ter and province. In oth­er sys­tems, provin­cial units are named dif­fer­ent­ly such as states and coun­tries. It is one of the essen­tial prin­ci­ples of democ­ra­cy to decen­tral­ize the […]