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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Opinion
Recipe For Disaster: ‘Mainstreaming’...
Three days after terming the banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) an Indian-backed ‘militant organisation’ and vowing to act against it,...
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Sexual Harassment Complaints Against...
A senior executive of an American NGO operating in Karachi has been accused of sexual harassment by women employees,...
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RTI Act: PTI Lawmaker...
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senator Wajid Iqbal and Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) Senator Manzoor Ahmed have proposed changes to the...
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Assistant Commissioner Hazim Bangwar...
In yet another episode of intolerance, Assistant Commissioner of North Nazimabad, Karachi, Hazim Bangwar, has received a backlash from...
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ANP Moves Court Against...
Awami National Party (ANP) provincial president Aimal Wali Khan has filed a petition in the Peshawar High Court (PHC)...
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Interpreter Of Arrested Chinese...
The interpreter of the arrested Chinese man accused of blasphemy in Kohistan district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has backtracked from his...
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