Post Covid-19: Federal-Provincial Relations in Pakistan

Abstract

The objective of this research is to examine the cooperation between the federal and provincial governments and analyze the response of the federal government to develop national unity during the Covid-19 in Pakistan. This research addresses the challenges and issues between the federal and provincial government in post Covid-19 and discuss the measures which are adopted by them. This study also highlights cooperative federalism that seems relevant to Pakistan. This research is set in a qualitative interpretative framework to address the aforementioned issues. This research concludes that Covid-19 affected the governance structure in four areas around the world such as authoritarianism, multilateralism, federalism and economic management. During the analysis two contradictory approaches emerged, first is the rights of federating units and the second is that federating units step aside and the federal government take charge to handle the situation.