OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the perception of nurses towards the role of pharmacist in Pakistan’s health care system.  METHODS: A qualitative approach was used to gain the understanding of nurses perception regarding the role of pharmacist. The study took place at AMC Hospital of Pakistan, from September 2011 until December 2011.Interview were conducted using a semi-structured interview guide which been developed after extensive literature review. A total of 12 Nurses were interviewed. All the interviews were transcribed verbatim and thematically analyzed for its content. RESULTS: Thematic content analysis yielded six major themes: 1) Storage of medicines by pharmacist; 2) Lack of interaction; 3) Seeking help from pharmacists; 4) Reduce work burden in professional duties; 5) Perception regarding pharmacists’ role; and 6) Participation of pharmacists for pharmaceutical care activity. As far as the role of hospital pharmacist is concerned, all the nurses highlighted the importance of having a pharmacist in hospital in order to improve current practice and professional image. They were quite confident and agreed with respect to the presence of pharmacist to improve to improve the medication use among the patients. At present nurses belief that by incorporating the role of pharmacist in patient care, the worth of nurses would be far little as compared to what it is now and can result interference into their duties. CONCLUSIONS: Nurses in Pakistan do consider pharmacist as drug information expert but overall a negative perception was found toward the role of pharmacist in health care setup. As because pharmacist was identified as a drug expert and his skills were confounded only to the issues concerning pharmacy management main cause behind this behavior may be was the minimal interaction between the two professions.