Members of Provincial Assemblies — MPAs — are the single most significant obstacle to meaningful decentralization Pakistan needs to function as a genuine democracy, a stakeholders meeting on local government reform was told in March 2026. The decentralization Pakistan discussion confirmed what UNDP Pakistan researchers, civil society experts, and development economists have long argued — that provincial legislators actively obstruct the transfer of real authority to local government bodies because decentralization Pakistan would redirect development spending away from MPA discretion into the hands of elected local representatives. The decentralization Pakistan…
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