Abstract
In democracy the strength of the state institutions depends on the relationship among central government with opposition and with provincial governments. Pakistan consists of a centre and four federating units having mix nationalities. The relationship among the ruling party in the centre with opposition and the governments in provinces most of the time remained unpleasant and unfriendly. It is argued that personal rather the national considerations augmented confrontation and conflict among national and regional level political leaders. This paper investigates the factors which have provoked politics of confrontation both within the parliament between ruling and opposition party and with provincial governments especially Punjab during Benazir Bhutto’s first term in office as prime minister. To find answers to these questions, secondary data has been utilized and to supplement this, newspapers have been consulted as well. This paper gives a detailed account of the reasons of politics of confrontation during PPP first tenure in government.

Bakhtiar Khan, Saeed Ahmad. (2018) Government-oppositions Relations during First Term of Benazir Bhutto as Prime Minister , Sir Syed Journal of Education & Social Research (SJESR), Volume-01, Issue-1.
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