Decentralisation by military regimes and challenges to citizen participation: an empirical reflection from Pakistan

Research settings

Despite limitations of time and resources, we sought to represent in this study the urban and rural populations of Sindh, the second largest province of Pakistan. Accordingly, Larkana as an urban district and the rural district of Kambar Shahdadkot in Sindh were selected as the two case-study locations for this research. The province of Sindh is in the southern part of Pakistan and its capital city of Karachi is Pakistan’s chief port and the largest city dominating its coastline (Ansari, 2015). Using Sindh as the location of two diverse case studies provided a unique…