Abstract
This study focuses upon the trends of center-province relations
during 2002-08 by examining politics of centralization and
patronage. As this era was ruled under an umbrella of
authoritarian regime where president of Pakistan was also the
chief of army staff himself; this is universal trend in entire world
that when military took over the politics, it tries to adopt
constitutional engineering regarding legitimize its rule. Same
was the situation during 2002-08. This study investigates how
this regime ensured political development by applying semipresidentialism, state-centricism and authoritarian
federalism.Constitutional engineering during the Pervez
Musharraf regime was actually the exhibition of semipresidentialism, state-centricism under authoritarian federalism.
However, along with having criticism regarding worse Centreprovinces relations, there is also a list of admires from several
political scientists. The study is based on the analytical version
and primary and secondary sources are the part of the research
