Ans:President Ayub Khan’s Basic Democracies System:
President Ayub Khan issued an order for Basic Democracies on 27
October, 1959 which introduced a system of local govemment in Pakistan.
It was called ‘Basic Democracy’ system. Its main aim was to transfer the
power at the lower level through their own representatives. This system
could not bring any substantial changes and came to an end. The system of
local governments was not even successful in the Bhutto regime