Rajni Bakshi, Senior Gandhi Peace Fellow, Gateway House, speaks about how the right to be heard and to dissent is crucial in a democracy but they come with responsibilities. The current anti-government protests are being mobilised by partisan-players with a political stake and could jeopardise Pakistan’s hard-won democracy
Ongoing protests against the government in Pakistan bring to the fore a question that dogs democracies across the world.
Should civil disobedience, a method which was crafted on the Indian subcontinent to militate against colonial regimes, be used to oppose democratically…
