The polarized environment within the ideological divide & thrust in decentralization of powers has been adopted worldwide to guarantee against discretionary use of powers by central or regional elites. Pakistan inherited the British Indian system of governance and the constitution in the post-independence era, Pakistan established a centralized system of governance on the lines of the Westminster model comprising of four provinces (Punjab, Sindh, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa & Baluchistan). The 1973 constitution of Pakistan is recognized as the supreme law of Pakistan and various amendments are incorporated in it up to now.

Thus the remarkable amendment in the constitution is Eighteenth Amendment that resolves the issues pertaining to a strong center and weak provinces.  The eighteenth amendment empowers provincial government to authorize local government and further the provinces have to dissolve financial, political and administrative powers.