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Sectarianism & civil 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…

The Civil Society’s Concerns

The civil society’s concerns

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…

Faith And Civil Society

Faith and civil society

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…

Civil Society After Asma

Civil society after Asma

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 Civil Society Debate

The civil society debate

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…

Redefining civil society’s role

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…

For A Liberated Civil Society

For a liberated civil society

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 Paradox Of Civil Society

The paradox of civil society

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…