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Crimes against humanity

Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned scholar, author and activist, in a video message to a webinar organised by a Washington-based advocacy organisation named the Indian American Muslim Council observed “The pathology…

Crime analytics

WITH the increase in population in both urban and rural areas, crime in Pakistan has taken on a more varied and complex dimension. A paradigm shift in traditional policing methods…

Countering financial crimes

In recent days, Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has taken many steps to enforce internal accountability mechanism to uproot corruption/malpractices within the organisation. The steps like making Chief Commissioners as…

Rise in cybercrime

ACCORDING to latest reports, the Federal Investigating Agency (FIA) received a total of 102,356 complaints related to cybercrime in the year 2021. This marks a massive increase in reporting by…

Effective strategies

THE 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan pushed Pakistan into a perpetual cycle of violent extremism (VE); the post-9/11 era, however, exacerbated its frequency and lethality. Initially, provincial police organisations had…

Desperate histrionics

The opposition is threatening to launch another series of protests against rising inflation in the country. They have announced some demonstrations in a few cities beginning this month. But, because…

Check-posts against white collar crimes

First, the medicine prices went through the roof. Next, it was the turn of Atta (wheat flour) and sugar prices, followed by “artificial shortage” of oil at a time when…

A new crime

Shucking past taboos, corporate marketeers hard sell directly to children bypassing or undermining parental authority. What they sell is obesity, diabetes, promiscuity, dangerous addictions andviolence in their merciless ‘entertainment programs’…