Pakistani internal security (catch all)

[davidbfpo]

A short, revealing article on policing Karachi by Zoha Waseem, ex-Kings War Studies. There have been improvements generally:

..since 2013, the homicide rate has been dropping in Karachi (from 2,507 deaths in 2013 to 301 in 2018).....vengeance through police encounters is personal – between 2011 and 2018, at least 637 police officials have been killed in Karachi.

(She concludes) For now, the public mood remains fickle, and it is too soon to tell whether this method of policing Karachi will return in the event that the city witnesses an increase in crime rates. Likewise, it is also too early to suggest that public opinion against police encounters will remain unchanged should violence spike again.

Link:https://shoc.rusi.org/informer/encou...licing-karachi