SESSION 2
Civil society and political/institutional change

I. A. Rehman
PAKISTAN
I do not include the religious obscurantist groups as a part of the civil society because the civil society by definition accepts discourse, accepts possibility of changing your views, accepts the principle of dynamism, of growth and evolution...

Nitai Mehta
INDIA
The government has become the enemy of people...

Sadiqa Salahuddin
PAKISTAN
Collaboration between NGOs and government is possible...

Dr. Sri Ram Khanna
INDIA
In a democracy such as ours the government is of the people and by the people but is it for the people?

Dr. Akhtar Hameed Khan
PAKISTAN
CHAIRPERSON
It is not the government that is failing in Pakistan [1997]. It is also the people who are failing...

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