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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Elections 2024
Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s Calls For...
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman and former Foreign Minister, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, has reiterated the need for an end to...
News
Aurat March Organisers Engage...
Aurat March organisers called out Minister for Climate Change Sherry Rehman on Twitter for "creating chaos" during the Islamabad...
News
Over 12 Children Sexually...
Over 12 children were sexually abused daily in Pakistan and as many as 4,253 cases of child sexual abuse...
News
Swat Leaders Criticise Parliament,...
Pakhtun leaders have criticised parliament and judiciary for remaining "silent" over killings in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) in the last...
Editor's Picks
Imran Khan Got Relief...
Supreme Court of Pakistan declared former prime minister Imran Khan's arrest "illegal" on the grounds that he was detained...
Opinion
Making Pakistan’s Federal System...
This article is part of a series titled “Is there a way forward for Pakistan?” Read more about the...
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Human Rights
Pakistan’s Top Court Upholds Death Sentence in Murder of Woman Killed For Obtaining Divorce
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s highest court on Saturday rejected an appeal by a man convicted...
Human Rights
Pakistan’s Civic Freedoms Deteriorate Amid Crackdown on Dissent: Report
ISLAMABAD - Civic freedoms in Pakistan have deteriorated amid a widening crackdown on activists,...
Human Rights
Pakistan Police Arrest 17 at Islamabad Aurat March on Women’s Day
Police arrested 17 organizers and participants of the annual Aurat March in Islamabad on...
Extremism watch
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...