A research team of Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC) visited selected districts of Pakistan to gather views of officials and representatives of district governments on the present system of local governance. A semi-structured questionnaire was used in the interviews and their opinions were obtained regarding satisfaction with the system, nature of coordination and working relationship amongst different tiers of the government, problems in financing, issues in development planning and status of community empowerment institutions. This report presents the glimpses of interviews with Nazims and officials of district governments.