Stories by Zoha Waseem

Zoha Waseem is an Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick. She researches on the politics and sociology of policing and security in Pakistan. Her book, Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi, has been published by Hurst and Oxford University Press (October 2022). Her Twitter handle is @ZohaWaseem.

Ranger danger: Why did NAB use a paramilitary force to arrest Imran Khan?

Repeated incidents of this nature reveal a sustained mutual dependency between the NAB and the Pakistan Army. Updated 15 May, 2023 03:49pm

THE RISE OF THE ‘SUPER COP’

The acquittal of former Sindh Police SSP Rao Anwar has once again brought extrajudicial killings by law enforcers into the spotlight. Updated 12 Feb, 2023 11:39am

Politics, police and the public: Why policing is and will continue to remain political in Pakistan

Because policing has been treated as a project of political ordering and disordering, it allows for the retention and abuse for colonial frameworks. Published 11 Oct, 2022 01:05pm

Crime control

Policing is a limited response to street crime. Updated 20 Feb, 2022 08:44am

THE PROBLEMS WITH POLICING PAKISTAN

Violent protests by the now-banned Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan once again put the police in the direct line of attack Updated 09 May, 2021 08:09am

Police violence

State insecurity produces reactive and repressive institutions. Published 10 Jan, 2021 08:49am

Under lockdown

Is policing a crisis going to create a crisis of policing? Published 25 Mar, 2020 05:37am

Police torture: A product of Pakistan's authoritarian political values?

It may very well be the case. Updated 14 Sep, 2019 08:14am

What the Sahiwal shooting tells us about police culture

Police culture is as much a product of state policies as it is of social and cultural conditioning of police officials. Updated 22 Jan, 2019 12:57pm

Cops or soldiers?

Who will watch the watchdogs? Updated 21 Jan, 2019 04:41pm

City ‘security’

Selective securitisation is under way in Karachi. Published 03 Jan, 2016 01:45am

Solitude and doodh patti in Iceland

In the words of one local, ‘everything here is on a small scale, except for the beauty of this country’. Updated 02 Jun, 2015 05:18pm

Wandering in wonder: A new way to visit Karachi

The Super Karachi Express is an initiative by youngsters to give people a closer look at Karachi's many wonders. Published 19 Jan, 2015 08:21pm