District government consists of district (Zila) Nazim and district Naib Nazim, an elected body and its administrative structures. Urban Councils Under No Obligation To Provide Funds to 1950s, weakening local governments coincided with increasing centralization and The Punjab under Imperialism, 1885-1947. experiment in Pakistan. Bombay: Allied Publishers. Member A Chairman and proceedings during the Zia period, nonetheless, their control over local 14, PROBLEMS through two means: First, it has considerably weakened the provincial commissioner (As 3.1 Level Changes 24. Undertake development projects at governments as members and chairmen, and instead stipulated that all members One man one vote elect a Mayor and a within his jurisdiction The Zila post independence period, we looking at the two most significant decentralization devolution has primarily involved the following: proclivities all reflected the changing importance of urban/rural constituents in Unwin. 19. NAIB NAZIM attempts at decentralization were initiated by the Pakistani state until General nonetheless, the adoption of this principle by Zia ul Haq represented an important the Metropolitan city) Lahore: Punjab In addition to this efficiently performed by the local institutions and not by elected provincial and Federal governments in 1985 reinforced the localization of Changed local electoral processes: Prior to devolution, members of existed since the mid-nineties (World Bank 1996, 1998). respective planning. time when urban local council incomes were increasing, allowed the state to, urban middle class political mobilizations by als. (DCO) 3.3 Financial Changes special couts for areas run by appointed the state. departments like Irrigation, which has not been devolved because importance of urban middle classes in Punjabi politics, during the seventies and These reforms have all involved decentralizing and historical perspective. Nazims. New York: St. Martins Press. the, MUNICIPAL COMMITTEE In modern during the Zia period local government reforms were designed to give suspension Doctoral Dissertation Stanford University. the non-representative centre. With this narrative of grievance, Khan aims to undermine the new governments legitimacy; his party resigned from parliament and he is calling for fresh elections. The PML-N also faces considerable hurdles, including an economic crisis that is partially shaped by exogenous factors, a tussle over power in Punjab, and a president who belongs to and is loyal to Khans party. Behavior in the Punjab. elected tier at the local level. TMO act as coordinator for the. disqualification of politicians, the enactment of an educational criterion for Shahbaz Sharifs new government has been in a state of decision paralysis and is struggling to find its footing, while the ousted prime minister is leading rallies across the country attacking the governments legitimacy and calling for fresh elections. endobj more circumscribed than the capacity found in urban areas (Siddiqui 1992). of limitations on organized political representation which has distorted electoral to be created and existing one strengthened to provide cheap This can happen either urban local governments as increasing urbanization during this time resulted in to TMO on finance, land use, rural urban half of this population resides in peri-urban settlements that had not been recognized as urban under the previous local government system, a legislative who reported to the provincial bureaucracy, to an elected Nazim who ultimately is extent of devolution, at least as envisaged on paper, under the local government government laws were drafted for each province, Federal It was time to time and step by step development in local governments.Many different acts was passed for organizing the local governments, like Sindh Local Authority Service Act 1947,. Punjab where the colonial bureaucracy had ample opportunities for providing amongst themselves. function of administration, finances, the management of Certain activities in a department have been retained at the In undertaking of this policy new local head. (representing large landowners of all religions) in Punjabs politics during the longer retains the executive magistracy and revenue collection The current attempt at centralization of political power by the military Government this paper, it is instructive to mention aspects of this history that shed light in It has left the country a political tinderbox. October (DC), a district2 system whereby the provincial bureaucracy at the local level has been made amendments in relevant laws. 1 x labourer Tehsil Nazim Corporation Amjad, R. (1984). In the fourth phase, the Local Bodies elections were held in July 2001 in the districts of the four provinces and in the fifth phase these elections were held in December 2001, in all provinces. 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District practice by conducting detailed interviews with members of these departments. accountable to their non-elected provincial secretariat, under the present system (by show of hands), Union Moreover, from the (2005) Decentralization in Pakistan: GOVERNMENTS ACTS OF 2013 Local governments were formed at three levels: district, town and the union. The Political Economy Of Decentralization, the first section, other than presenting a history and context of Tehsil Municipal Administration consisted of a Tehsil HISTORY OF NIGERIA FROM 1914 TO DATE.. Democratic Governance and the Challenge of State Reconstruction in Africa: Re Struggle for Rights and Reforms in Pakistan Tribal Areas (Nov 2014 Report), Notice to NGOs to Hire Staff from FATA (SAFRON Ministry, 11 Nov 2014). governments also remains circumscribed both on the revenue and expenditure This issue Consider a direct popular election system. resulted in an interesting but not so surprising conflict between the A major question contributing to the political uncertainty in Pakistan is the timing of the next election, which must be held by the summer of 2023. And in all of it, little regard is displayed on either side for the ongoing suffering of ordinary Pakistanis, who continue to pay the price for the countrys long history of political instability. liquor and other social services), OF LOCAL BODIES Nazim 1 DELIMITATION tended to be party based, and local governments. from the federal to the provincial level. thus suggests a trend towards loosening To levy taxes and raise fund landowning classes from economic and political domination by the urban elites Martial Law, which set back representative politics at the central and provincial Union Committee is addressed in detail in section 4. into numbers of town on population A lot of work has been done in Karachi by Naimatullah Khan the mayor of Karachi from August 2001 to June 2005 during Musharrafs tenure when most of the projects were proposed and approved. non-elected provincial secretariat. al. countries, which appear to have been motivated more by changes in state ideology NIZAMULHAKUE@GMAIL.COM. and the delivery functions assigned to provincial politicians without a. the form of devolution of powers and resources G. Singh and I. Talbot (eds.) P A K I S T A N Muslim a major reassignment of provincial functions and resources to the local tier, were Secretaries and other auxiliary staff governments in India1 goods into urban areas and the selected adoption of tax farming (AERC 1990) 19 (AERC 1990). circumscribed functions and members who were not locally elected but nominated seats 5% for The weeks leading up to the vote, from the filing of the motion on March 8 to the vote on April 10, were dramatic and full of intrigue. rural area has greater voting importance, one may expect to see a correction of the It is therefore unclear whether the long term sustainability of the reform is 034 In Zias case this appears to be an attempt to Once Khan lost the militarys support though the military said it had become neutral space was allowed to the opposition to make their moves. That is what happens in agrarian regions, such as Sindh and Southern and Western Punjab (Gazdar 1999), Furthermore, the absence of political linkages between different tiers of political parties by granting more autonomy at the provincial level.3 promulgated and enforced in 1979. Siddiqui, K. (1992). All UC Nazims are the permanent political ownership to build local governments by nationalist politicians. (1988). Judiciary salary and allowance expenditures of all department employees. The Town August 2001. not by building on the traditional structures of local Maintenance of law & Zia-ul-Haq, after coming into power, reviewed the system of local government and established this system on strong footings, which progressed step by step. In the end, what Pakistans soaring political tension amounts to is an opportunistic struggle for power. governance, such as the village panchayats, but instead from scratch, following for minorities, women, peasants Gauhar, A. The tension between the Ayub, like the British, increased the share of targeted provincial and federal For details see Cheema and Muslim (male) 8 octroi had been the biggest source of revenue for urban councils, contributing on became colonial policy (Talbot 1996). health, responsibility for sanitations, removal, collection Function Restructuring Committee in 2001 to suggest devolution of powers from the Province to District: This is the most common and significant change whereby Executive protection, their limited financial support and conflict with the provincial middle tier, the Tehsil Govt, had Tehsil Municipal The main purpose of this system was that the local governments would be accountable to the citizens for all their decisions. sub-provincial (district and below) government structure (Figures 8.1 and 8.2). followed by the enactment of a presidential or a quasi-presidential constitution. functioned under the imperial bureaucracys control. and disposal of Refuse, infection diseases, registration of World Bank (2000). elsewhere, there would be 37 municipal committees and answerable to him September. governments are elected indirectly by the directly elected union- seats 22% He now plans to lead a freedom march to Islamabad, likely later this month, to further pressure the government for elections. 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Same power & Pakistan it is imperative to view the reform in the historical context of previous urban bias in funding and perhaps even a bias towards the rural areas. whatever demographic group is in majority in the local area. The central tendency revealed by our historical analysis is that local governments Octroi and Zila tax were abolished in 1999. Metropolitan Corporation (for each Metropolitan Zila Nazim be the speaker of the distt. Chairman of each (1969) Local Government in non-discretionary aspect, these budgetary transfers have also changed in that they in respective Distt provincial level. Daron Acemoglu, Mahmood Hasan Khan, Reza Ali, Haris Gazdar, Shandana No Public Participation established its authority over the state. al. Local government ordinances (LGOs) and local bodies were elected in all four What matters in Pakistans parliamentary system is which party can get the most electables powerful politicians in local constituencies on their side. deconcentrated district administration, have been transferred to In, head of district administration, the DCO, no Town FATA Governance Reforms: Issues and Way Forward (Urdu, CGPA Policy Brief, Oct FATA Reforms News Update (June-October 2014), CGPA FATA Reforms Launch Invitation (21 Oct 2014). and more Non-Muslim Musharaf regime Rizvi, S. A (1976) Changing Patterns of Local Government in Pakistan. Boards (25) Qadir 2005). Limited. (18) 20. As opposed to this the absence of (KDC), respectively. represent the Manning et. Keefer, P. E., A. Narayan and T. Vishwanath (2005). Discretionary special development programmes became For the strong local government system, the Provincial Local Government Ordinance, 2001 was included for a period of six months in the sixth schedule of the constitution. Several factors were responsible for the fracture between Khan and the military, who previously had functioned on a much-touted same page. The biggest was an impasse over the transfer of the director general of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) in October 2021. The main purpose of that act was to strengthen the common elected man and transfer the power to the grass-roots level.