Defining Terrorism: Its (Mis)Application and Implications in Pakistan

The Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 (ATA) mainly governs the anti-terror legal regime of VITAMIN E CREAM Pakistan.This paper debates that the definitional part of this statute has certain ambiguities which makes it difficult to determine ambit and scope of this statute.Consequently, the specially mandated Anti-Terrorism Courts (ATCs) have to deal with the question of jurisdiction first and the original trial proceeds later which Multi-Axis Bearing Link makes the basic purpose of the ATA i.e.

to speedily decide the cases, futile.Even the higher judiciary sometimes issues the ATA-based decisions with weak jurisprudential reasons.This study postulates that only a lucid and detailed legislative amendment can end this overuse of ATA as well as the confusions of jurisdiction and expedite trial proceedings [Ed.].

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