Humanities & Social Sciences 3 (2015 8) 401-413 ~ ~ ~ УДК 323.11(549.1) The Issues & Challenges of Diversity in Contemporary Pakistan: is Consociational Democracy a Viable Solution? <...> Samina Noor* Islamia University Bahawalpur, Pakistan Received 12.11.2014, received in revised form 10.12.2014, accepted 21.01.2015 Pakistan now days facing many issues and challenges which pose threats to stability and democratization, and ethnicity one of them. <...> In this research we analysis how ethnic diversity damages the roots of democracy in contemporary Pakistan. <...> If therefore, what Consociational measures would be more likely to accommodate ethnic minorities? <...> This research paper attempts to answer these questions looking thoroughly at the ethnic composition of Pakistan, the role and strength of the Pakistani Federation towards managing of diversity, and the measures of power sharing presented by Lijphart’ s Consociational democracy. <...> Inroduction Pakistan is multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual society like most of the developing countries in the world. <...> The relationship of of government ethnicity and political system is even more important in the social life of human beings because ethnicity is fundamentally a continuous, dynamic process that occurs between two or more ethnic populations. <...> Most Asian democracies feature highly diverse societies divided along multiple cleavages of geography, language, history, class, and culture. <...> Therefore, these countries are facing the problem of stable democracy. <...> Pakistani society it characterized by its in multi-linguistic, multi-ethnic, and class-divided texture. <...> Pakistan, these days are passing through a crucial era of multifarious ethnic problems multi-lingual and regional problems etc. <...> Pakistan, since its creation, has facing several challenges to the immovability of its democratic system, which prerequisite for its growth. <...> The political system * Corresponding author E-mail address: sameena.noor786@yahoo.com # 401 # Samina Noor. <...> The Issues & Challenges of Diversity in Contemporary Pakistan: is Consociational Democracy. of Pakistan has been followed by the military rule after the least touch of democracy. <...> These gradually transitions in the political system, makes it more vulnerable to both internal and external threats. <...> In order to accommodate group rights in ethnic diverse society’s alternative to majority rule and to the concentration to the hand of the center have to be envisaged. <...> Lijphart maintains that democracy is possible <...>