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Civil society refers to the space which lies between the state and private sectors and represent un-coerced collective action around common interests, purposes and values. Civil society comprises a diversity of spaces, actors and institutions varying in their degree of formality, autonomy and power. Civil society is valued for its civilian nature and its role in strengthening peace and stability.

 

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Partaw Naderi

I still have time
 

It’s well past midnight

I should get up to pray

The mirrors of my honesty

have long been filmed with dust

 

I should get up

I still have time

My hands can yet discern

a jug of water from a jug of wine

 

as time’s wheeled chariot

hurtles down the slope of my life

 

Perhaps tomorrow

the poisonous arrows aimed at me

will hunt down my eyes

two speckled birds startled into flight

 

Perhaps tomorrow

my children

will grow old

awaiting my return

Peshawar, Pakistan
August, 2000

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