Friday, April 11, 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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Why Do Secret Recordings...

Former Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar has questioned why leaked audio clips of Pakistan Army generals...

Activist Jibran Nasir’s Abduction...

Social media users have condemned the abduction of lawyer and rights activist Jibran Nasir, whose whereabouts remain unknown after...

HRW Urges Pakistan To...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Pakistani authorities to end "arbitrary" arrests of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders and supporters...

Baloch Sit-In Against Enforced...

The Baloch activists and heirs of missing persons, who had been protesting against enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings outside...

F-9 Park Rape: ‘Criminal...

ISLAMABAD: On February 2nd, a woman was raped in F-9 Park in Islamabad while she was with her male...

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Biggest Hospital...

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's biggest health facility, Lady Reading Hospital, has reportedly defaulted, with the hospital's spokesperson confirming that they are...

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