Police vs protesters
The Sindh Rawadari March held on October 13, 2024, was a landmark event, highlighting the refusal of the people of Sindh to accept any intolerant agenda that certain quarters have…
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…
Impact of a weak police command
IN 2001, the National Reconstruction Bureau was tasked with reforming the governance structure in the country. It took it up at the district level, as the entire edifice of governance…
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…
Police excesses
NO united civil liberties movement exists as such in India today. But police excesses have mounted. The movement against the Citizenship Amendment Act has spread all over India. Two conspicuous…
Police and ministers
JAMSHED Nagarwala, an exceptionally able deputy commissioner of police in charge of the Bombay CID, was disturbed by the first and unsuccessful attempt on Gandhi’s life on Jan 20, 1948,…
Police clash footage shocks BD as internet returns
When millions of Bangladeshis came back online this week after a nationwide internet shutdown, many were shocked to watch a ferocious police clampdown they had earlier only heard while bunkered…
Crime and police
The Arabic word ‘noor’ has multiple meanings. Depending on the context, it can mean brightness, divine light, or simply ‘light’. ‘Raushnai’ is a Persian word having similar meanings, but it…
An independent police
The police force is one of the crucial law-enforcement agencies for maintaining law and order in society. It plays a pivotal role in the implementation of the law and enforcement…
