Under the FATF sword on September 29, 2018The recent Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on the currency dealers of Peshawar’s famous Sarafa Bazar triggered afresh the debate on the issue of money laundering and the associated menace of terrorism financing and the rough ride Pakistan is experiencing with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Sarafa Bazar, though mainly known as the gold jewellery […]
KP police reforms: myths& reality on July 28, 2018Politics is the art of perception management. Politicians often employ advertisement companies’ technique of repeating certain phrases or sentences umpteen times till the listeners believe them as a matter of faith. “We made police misali in KP province” is one such piece of mythology that has become an essential part of a list of achievements […]
Mashal between despair and hope on April 21, 2017The gory incident at Abdul Wali Khan University where I am pursuing doctoral research shook me to the core. Ever since I joined the Police Service of Pakistan in 1989, I closely witnessed the violent tide of religious extremism taking multiple shapes. I saw the fabric of our society tearing apart by different groups raising […]