The objective of this paper is to analyze the role of bureaucracy and local self-government in Pakistan. The local self-government system was always introduced by military generals like General Ayub Khan, General Zia ulHaq and General Musharraf. Decentralization model is always designed to distribute the power to ensure the good governance. But in the history of Pakistan local government models show that the working capacity and ability was different from the designed structure. Musharraf gave the long term and inclusive system of local government and system of good governance in 2001. Under the Devolution of Power Plan new local governmental institutions were introduced with unique powers and different roles in local affairs. All the local affairs were made under the elected members. First time in the history of Local government bureaucracy was made answerable to the elected member. Another change in local selfgovernment was made after the local government act 2013 which granted many powers to the bureaucracy. In this research qualitative method of research has used. This study analyses the powers and functional capacity of bureaucracy in local self-government of Pakistan during the different systems