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.
Opinion
‘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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Human Rights
Refused Treatment, Later Denied...
An elderly transwoman, who passed away after allegedly being refused treatment at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC), Karachi, was...
News
Hindu Teacher Accused Of...
A Hindu teacher has been languishing in Sindh jail for over 3 years after he was arrested in 2019...
Opinion
‘Police Vigilantism’: How to...
This article is part of a series titled “Is there a way forward for Pakistan?” Read more about the...
News
MNA Mohsin Dawar’s Amendment...
North Waziristan Member National Assembly Mohsin Dawar's amendment to the unanimously-passed National Assembly bill limiting the chief justice of...
News
Jailed Former Minister Shireen...
Imaan Mazari, daughter of incarcerated Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and former minister for human rights Shireen Mazari, has said...
News
Baloch Sit-In Against Enforced...
The Baloch activists and heirs of missing persons, who had been protesting against enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings outside...
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Overlooking Homegrown Hate, Pakistan Hesitates to Call Islamabad Blast Anti-Shia Violence
ISLAMABAD - Just hours before a suicide bomber struck the Khadija Tul Kubra Shia...
Opinion
How Imaan-Hadi Conviction Marks the Death of Fair Trial in Pakistan
Last week, a trial court in Islamabad convicted human rights lawyers Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir...
Commentary
PTI’s Ambiguous Rhetoric on Taliban Is Dangerous for Pakistan’s Counter-Extremism Efforts
This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Lauren Brown Fellowship. Islamabad -...
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