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Throughout the world, and especially in South Asia, myriad constituencies are grappling with rethinking and renegotiating the contours of society, particularly women’s place in the larger social order. This is raising profound questions regarding women’s social roles and rights eliciting disparate, conflicting images concerning what constitutes women’s rights, who is to define these rights, where responsibility lies for ensuring rights, and the ...
Pakistani society is gripped today by a number of fundamental crises that have created extreme distortions in state and society. There is a dramatic increase in the perception, and tendency, that it is necessary and acceptable to attain power by any means. This has contributed significantly to a sense of uncertainty and social chaos. There is a surface conformity amid growing cynicism and skepticism, about the legitimacy of authority. The social aspects ...