Politics of Reconciliation and Accommodation: A Study of Benazir Bhutto’s First Era of Democratic Government 1988-1990

Abstract

This article reflects the trends of political government of Benazir Bhutto from1988 to 1990 after the restart of democracy in Pakistan. The major challenge of that government was to refurbish the political ethos of the polity. It was the political acumen of leadership of that time which explored every option to adjust the views of public representatives. In this article this political accommodation has been analysed under the concept of consociationalism—opined by Arend Lijphart. This attitudinal and institutional adaptability brought to fore the political behaviour and ultimately projected those signs which could favour to political stability in the plural society of Pakistan.