Opinions

‘Insecurity and Informality in Police-Migrant Encounters in Pakistan’. Border Criminologies. 08 December 2022. Read.

‘Politics, Police, and the Public: Why policing is and will continue to remain policing in Pakistan’. DAWN. 11 October 2022. Read.

‘Crime Control’. DAWN, 20 February 2022. Available here.

‘The Problems with Policing Pakistan’, DAWN. 09 May 2021. Available here.

‘When the police want more guns: Militarized policing has become a trend in South Asia, but is that making the region more secure?’, InkStick, 04 March 2021. Available here.

‘Police violence’, DAWN, 10 January 2021. Available here.

[Webinar] ‘US-Pakistan counterterrorism cooperation beyond Afghanistan’, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, 20 October 2020. With Shamila Chaudhary, Dr Asfandyar Mir and Adam Weinstein.

[Webinar] ‘Policing and the use of force: Seeking security and legitimacy in violence urban areas’, International Institute for Strategic Studies, 08 July 2020. With Dr Ignacio Cano and Dr Tessa Diphoorn.

‘Coronavirus pandemic puts police in the spotlight in Pakistan’, Commentary and Analysis, United States Institute of Peace, 16 June 2020. With Adnan Rafiq. Available here.

‘Policing and public health in Pakistan’, Asia Law Centre, University of Melbourne, 03 June 2020. Available here.

‘COVID-19 in South Asia: “Hard policing” approach has left police ill-prepared to respond to a pandemic’, Policing Insight, 14 April 2020. Available here.

‘Under lockdown: Policing public health emergencies’, DAWN, 25 March 2020. Available here.

‘Police torture: A product of Pakistan's authoritarian political values?’, Prism, 14 September 2019. Available here.

‘Encounters as a method of policing Karachi’, Strategic Hub on Organised Crime, 26 February 2019. Available here.

‘What the Sahiwal shooting tells us about police culture’, Prism, 22 January 2019. Available here.

‘Karachi attack demands a review of Pakistan’s security measures’, Asia Dialogue, 26 November 2018. Available here.

‘A “Dirty” but Decisive Victory: Pakistan’s political landscape in the aftermath of the general elections 2018’, Asia Dialogue, 30 July 2018 (with Yasser Kureshi). Available here.

‘National Internal Security Police in review’, The Friday Times, 08 June 2018. Available here.

‘Policing the police’, Newsline Magazine, 17 September 2018. Available here.

‘Time to break Pakistan’s security-only mentality’, National Interest, 03 November 2016 (with Abdul Basit). Available here.

‘City “Security”’, DAWN, 03 January 2016. Available here.

Interviews

‘Afghans flee to Pakistan. An uncertain future awards’, The New York Times, 08 September 2021 (by Zia ur Rehman). Available here.

‘Why London’s tier 2 lockdown couldn’t be borough by borough’, Wired UK, 17 October 2020 (by Matt Burgess). Available here.

‘On protests and policing: A conversation with Cathy Lisa Schneider’, Urban Violence Research Network, 23 June 2020. Available here.

‘Pakistan’s police have sent you a friend request’, Rest of World, 09 June 2020 (by Saba Imtiaz). Available here.

‘A thriving thana culture’, The News on Sunday, 26 January 2020 (by Zia ur Rehman). Available here.

‘Encounter killings in India’, BBC Radio 4’s The World Tonight (from 31 minutes 27 secs), 09 December 2019. Available here.

‘Police reforms in Pakistan’, BBC Urdu’s Sairbeen, 30 September 2019. Available here.

‘Analysts see no change in Karachi Operation as PTI promises review’, Arab News, 05 August 2018 (by Naimat Khan). Available here.

‘Death toll in Parachinar and Quetta attacks passes 80’, Al Jazeera, 24 June 2018. Available here.

‘How did these terror attacks during the last 20 years change the world?’, The Telegraph, 23 July 2015. Available here.