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Pakistan: New government must tackle police corruption and killings

29th April 2022

Professor Zoha Waseem, University of Warwick

ANALYSIS: Despite several attempts at reform, successive governments in Pakistan appear to have had little success in tackling the corruption, undue political influence and paramilitary involvement in policing; Zoha Waseem, Assistant Professor in Criminology at the University of Warwick, believes Pakistan’s new government must now take the opportunity to deliver localised, effective change.

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Zoha Waseem
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Zoha Waseem is Assistant Professor in Criminology, Department of Sociology, at the University of Warwick, and researches on policing, urban insecurity, and violence in postcolonial contexts, with a focus on Pakistan. She obtained her PhD from the School of Security Studies, King’s College London, and has worked as a teaching fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Global City Policing, University College London. Zoha is also Co-Coordinator for the Urban Violence Research Network.