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Monday, March 10, 2025

Zoha Waseem

The writer is an Assistant Professor in Criminology, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick. She is the author of “Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters, and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi” (Hurst/Oxford University Press 2022). She researches on policing, security, and urban violence in Pakistan.

‘Police Vigilantism’: How to Combat Extrajudicial Violence in Pakistan?

This article is part of a series titled “Is there a way forward for Pakistan?” Read more about the series here.   A Policy, Unabandoned In January this year, an official report revealed that the Punjab Police had killed more than 600 ‘suspects’ in police encounters between 2018...

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Kharqamar Incident: When Pashtun...

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