Pakistan’s Punjab police kill 900 people in eight months: What’s going on?

Islamabad, Pakistan – When armed officers from Pakistan’s Crime Control Department raided Zubaida Bibi’s home in Bahawalpur city in southern Punjab province last November, they took everything: mobile phones, cash, gold jewellery and her daughter’s wedding dowry. They also took her sons.

Within 24 hours, five members of her family were dead, killed in separate “police encounters...