ABSTRACT
Since its independence from British colonialism in 1947, institutional breakdown took place at an astonishingly rapid pace in Pakistan. Politicization and narrow interests plagued the nation’s institutions.2,3 One of those institutions was that of deputy commissioner & district magistrate (DC & DM). As seen in Chapter 2, he was the lynchpin of district administration in Pakistan at the time of the country’s inception in 1947.
