Experts from various fields said that the role of the federal government and civil society is critical to address climate change issues direly impacting the economy, society, and politics of…
Pakistani experts from various fields said on Wednesday that the role of the federal government and civil society is critical to address climate change issues direly impacting the economy, society,…
NOTHING is more challenging for a state than maintaining social harmony during times of religious discord and hatred. The challenge becomes more uncertain when civil society and other stakeholders become…
Responding to the enormity of crises faced by state and society, leading civil society activists and mainstream and left-oriented activists and intellectuals have come up with an alternative progressive democratic…
In my previous article in these pages (July 8, 2019), I discussed the paradox of collective freedom in faith-based communities. The article led to a heated debate around the existential…
Throughout this week, our minds have been concentrated on Asma Jahangir. Those of us who passionately endorse the universal values of democracy and social justice are still in a state…
The notion of the civil society is frequently used in our modern political and development discourse. The concept of the civil society entails anything ranging from a political party, an…
The idea of social development is as old as human civilisation itself, with a perennial objective to promote the welfare of the common people in a polity. Social development has…
Pessimism sets in as the world undergoes uncanny political changes in the aftermath of Brexit, rise of Donald Trump and declining popularity of social democrats across the Western hemisphere. Ruthless…
The notion of civil society has essentially remained a Western concept that was introduced during the colonial period as an instrument of social legitimacy for colonial rule. This is a…
