Articles with tag: civil society
YES, we can!
Muhammad Akhtar Apr 18, 2009 interacts: 8All great transformations are started by a small minority at a stage when there are skeptics dominating the optimists. We have to believe that there is no greater power than that of the people.
Young Turks’ Revolution for Pakistan
saeed qureshi Apr 10, 2009 interacts: 28They will emerge and born from the lower and middle ranks of the army. The civil society activists can agitate but cannot dislodge and force the reactionary forces to retreat.
Swat Calls For Civil Society to Act
Zubair Torwali Jan 7, 2009 interacts: 135Government writ is a faded vision; elected councilors and Nazims are killed, women no more allowed to visit bazaars; markets are deserted, police stations vacated.
Mass Difference: The Bhuttos and Civil Society
Nadeem F Paracha Jan 6, 2008 interacts: 22Populist, mass-oriented politics can effectively cancel out the two most prominent anti-populist strains in Pakistan i.e. the politico-religious and the elite-bourgeois.
Resist, resist, resist: ‘The gift of a crisis’
Beena Sarwar Nov 24, 2007 interacts: 197General Musharraf’s announcement of an ‘emergency’ on Nov 3 stunned many among this otherwise complacent generation -- enough to finally act upon their convictions.
Pressures Mount on Pervez Musharraf
Beena Sarwar Nov 15, 2007 interacts: 11"The judges by not taking oath, the lawyers and civil society by resisting have shown the way. The media is standing by them. This is one battle the General is sure to lose"
Cholesterol Say Paak
Nadeem F Paracha Nov 8, 2007 interacts: 129I usually get my news by driving around the city. I see a look of uncertainty on the faces of the people, but no great movement.
No longer Hydera-GOOD, its Hydera-BAD
Deepak Sapra Sep 12, 2007 interacts: 9The fly-over under construction at Panjagutta, supposed to relieve the city of its traffic woes in the most crowded stretch of the city, gave way.
Get over the Victim Syndrome
Ahmer Muzammil Jan 26, 2007 interacts: 236The real issues that affect our daily lives are never addressed by opposition or the government, instead we are enamored with non-issues like huddod ordinance, attire of mushy, Kashmir, women’s face on hoardings, music in public buses and other crap
Tough to be Disabled in India
Shantanu Dutta Oct 16, 2006 interacts: 12In a country like India the numbers of the disabled are so large, their problems so complex, available resources so scarce and social attitudes so damaging, it is only legislation which can eventually bring about a substantial change in a uniform manner.
