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Police in terrorists’ crosshairs

ACCORDING to the Global Terrorism Index 2025, the number of terrorist attacks on police in Pakistan in 2024 exceeded those on any other law-enforcement agency — civil or military. As per…

What is KP’s mining bill?

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mines and Minerals Amendment Bill 2025 is an update to the 2017 law, with the primary objective to attract domestic and foreign investment, enhance transparency, and curb…

Policing the police

THE establishment of dedicated Police Complaints Authorities has been a long-standing demand in the discussion on police reforms in Pakistan and India. PCAs were introduced in neighbouring India in 2006…

Institutional police response

IN the past year, there has been a record spike in attacks by the TTP and Baloch separatists on Pakistan’s law-enforcement agencies. Over this period, more than 100 policemen were…

Police command structure

TO accommodate the rapid expansion of Pakistan’s population, successive provincial governments increased the number of revenue districts. In line with this, the police force and administrative units at the district…

The morality police

Harkening back to the 1980s and the dark days of General Ziaul Haq, who single-handedly changed the face of a nation that was progressive and moving towards further enlightenment in…