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Zoha Waseem, Assistant Professor in Criminology, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick

Pakistan: new government must tackle police corruption and killings

Police detain supporters of former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan at a rally in April 2022. Reuters/Alamy

By the time Imran Khan’s government fell in late March 2022, it showed an an abysmal track record of unfulfilled promises, especially on badly needed reforms to address the problems of police corruption and extrajudicial killings.

Khan’s party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI), had a comprehensive agenda for changing the way the police operated, promising to eliminate “political influence on policing in all matters”, including recruitment and transferring officers for political gain.

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