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Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Regime and Growth of the Baloch Nationalism in 1970s
Get PDFZulfiqar Ali Bhutto was the first elected prime minister of Pakistan His initial strategy of accommodation and power sharing with the regionalists in Balochistan had a positive impact on the national politics The regionalists started to distance themselves from secessionist tendencies However the policy of pacification was short-lived The central government instead of addressing political conflicts with consensus resorted to undemocratic means The process of democratization in Balochistan was disrupted and the provincial government was dissolved The autonomists were sidelined and were dubbed as anti-state elements The extremists within the autonomists fold were infuriated and started the armed insurgency The central government launched an army operation to cope with insurgents Bhutto s regime marked a tendency towards executive despotism Despite provincial government s alleged defiance of federal authority the central government could have treated them with patience and tolerance visualizing the sensitivity of the Balochistan crisi
Issue of Democratic Accountability in the Contemporary History of Pakistan (1999-2008) Challenges and Prospects
Get PDFPolitical accountability is generally, in the context of a democratic state, related to issues, for instance, how elected representatives can be made responsible for their exercise of power and policies. The aim of this research is to establish the meaning of the phenomena of political accountability in the contemporary perspective of Pakistan. The Grounded theory as a method is used on archival data and interviewing. Political elites split off to join the spoils system of Musharraf regime in return for the accretion for power and kept themselves safe from accountability process, which was very selective, discriminatory, and politically-motivated, initiated by the Mushrraf government. Their preoccupation was with ruler ship rather than the electorate as citizens. In this classical cycle of client list politics, the government from top to the bottom was embedded in the notion of rewarding their „clients‟ rather than their principal actors of political accountability, i.e. the citizens
