Civil society to bring positive change through a democratic process: Senator S.M Zafar
Chancellor Hamdard University senator S.M Zafar said that civil society is becoming a force to reckon with and it is an entity that exists between a government and the state. Civil society must unite to play its role and express its voice against any unconstitutional activities and injustice prevailing in the country. When components of a civil society are not conscientious and active enough, then the society is like a flock of sheep. Bad governance always causes deterioration in a society. Senator S.M Zafar was delivering a brain starming lecture on the "role of civil society in today's world" to the faculty and staff of Hamdard University Islamabad campus.
Civil society become alive and active during lawyers movement and effectively contributed to restoration of judiciary in Pakistan in the year 2007. This phenomenon has empowered judiciary to work freely and take independent strong decisions. In a crisis, like October 2005 earthquake or last year floods, civil society has played a crucial role to tackle the crisis. Our religion islam also advocates there should be a group of people in the society who promote good deeds and prohibited bad deeds he added.
Senator S.M. Zafar said that the education is the only answer to the bad governance, corruption, injustice and other social problems undermining our community. He advised the civil society to bring positive change but through a constitutional and democratic processes. Pakistan is not a poor country it is full of resources and a better future can be our destiny if we get rid of bad governance, injustice and corruption.
The best medicine for treatment of the cancer of corruption engulfing the Pakistani society is the media and journalists should use their right of access to information under Article 16-A of the constitution,.
Senator SM Zafar said that despite many loopholes, the media had attained a respectable position in society only because young people were working in media outlets who always welcomed change. "I always remain optimistic about Pakistan's future and when the question comes that to whom one may trust with this optimism – the answer is the media," he said.
In the last 50 years civil society has come to play an important role all over the world in mobilizing mass support for the solution of national problems. Policy planners and intellectuals are of the view that even the best national plans cannot succeed without the active support and participation of civil society. In our own country we have seen the historic role played by civil society in the movement for the restoration of the judiciary.
The power of civil society in shaping and mobilizing public opinion is unquestioned. In many countries of the world I have seen how civil society, through its proactive role, has brought about revolutionary changes in national thinking. Here I may narrate my own experience in Malaysia. Along with my host and his grandchildren I was having a stroll and drinking water from a bottle. After I finished drinking, as is our wont, I laid the bottle against a wall. I had not yet taken a few steps when my host's grandchildren ran down, picked up the bottle and put it in a garbage bin nearby. This episode has gone a long way to convince me how civil society can bring about a change in social behavior. In the same way in civilized societies, traffic violations are not only taken notice of by the police but also by members of the public who report such incidents to the concerned authorities.
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