摘要：The challenges of federalism in Pakistan are multidimensional in nature and largelyassociated with various dynamics of politics. Lack of democratic practices, politicalinstability, low political culture and type of government exercising its control at the federallevel are those factors which considerably affect the federal politics in Pakistan. The repeateddissolutions of the National Assembly and the consequent fall of provincial assemblies duringthe decade of the1990s also stressed the federal notion in Pakistan. The problems offederalism in Pakistan were further augmented by the arrival of a military administration inpower on October 12, 1999.Even though, a constitutional government was established as aresult of the general election of 2002but it did not diminish the centralization andauthoritarian trends as the center of political power was still a military man. This paperexpounds that under Musharraf regime, prime intent of devising policies was to securelegitimacy of his rule and federal issues were not dealt with federal and political means. Thisresearch expounds that type of regime is relevant to federal practices in Pakistan and militaryled regimes in Pakistan are less responsive to federal challenges and ethnic demands as undertheir conception of unity in command, federal consensus and bargain are less pertinent. Thisled to decline the role of elected legislatures and federal institutions as the federal notion ofthe state was largely hampered. This study aims to address the issue that how militaryintervention into politics augmented the federal problems in Pakistan and to what extent typeof regime is relevant to federal practices in Pakistan?
