This landmark document traces the history of Pakistan’s anti-terror legislation upto the Pakistan Protection Ordinance (October 2013). It encapsulates various steps – administrative as well as legal – taken to counter terrorism, particularly since August 1997, when the government first introduced the Anti-Terror Act 1997 to the context of growing sectarian violence, particularly in the central Punjab province.

In his praise for this publication, prominent barrister Ahmer Bilal Soofi has called it “the best document so far on the subject”. It will hopefully serve as one of reference documents for all those interested in knowing how Pakistan has dealt with the scourge of terrorism and sectarian violence particularly since the early 1980s.

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