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The Anti Terrorism Court of Pakistan (, ATC) was established in
Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...
in 1997, under
Nawaz Sharif Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani politician and businessman who served as the 12th Prime Minister of Pakistan, prime minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms, first serving from 1990 to 1993, then ...
's government, to deal with terrorism cases.


1997 creation and subsequent amendments

The court had been created by the 1997 Anti-Terrorist Act, amended on 24 October 1998 by the Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Ordinance following the
Supreme Court In most legal jurisdictions, a supreme court, also known as a court of last resort, apex court, high (or final) court of appeal, and court of final appeal, is the highest court within the hierarchy of courts. Broadly speaking, the decisions of ...
judgment (''
Merham Ali versus Federation of Pakistan ''Mehram Ali v. Federation Pakistan'' (PLD 1998 SC 1445) is considered to be an important judgment of Supreme Court of Pakistan and marked the importance of the independence of a judiciary, particularly in reference to the Article 175 of the Co ...
'', 1998) declaring most of its provisions unconstitutional. Charles H. Kennedy
The Creation and Development of Pakistan’s Anti-terrorism Regime, 1997–2002
i
Religious Radicalism and Security in South Asia
(Satu P. Limaye, Robert G. Wirsing, Mohan Malik, eds.), pp. 387–413 (a publication of the
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, Honolulu, Hawaï, Spring 2004).
A short time before being ousted from power by
Pervez Musharraf Pervez Musharraf (11 August 1943 – 5 February 2023) was a Pakistani general and politician who served as the tenth president of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008. Prior to his career in politics, he was a four-star general and appointed as ...
's coup, Sharif enacted the 25 August 1999 Pakistan Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Ordinance which generalized the ATC system to all the country.


Anti-terrorism courts under General Pervez Musharraf

Following Pervez Musharraf's 1999 coup, Nawaz Sharif was judged and given a life sentence in 2000 by the ATC, which was commuted into
exile Exile or banishment is primarily penal expulsion from one's native country, and secondarily expatriation or prolonged absence from one's homeland under either the compulsion of circumstance or the rigors of some high purpose. Usually persons ...
. In 2000,
Kamran Atif Kamran Atif () is a member of Harkat-ul Mujahideen al-Alami. In 2002, he tried to assassinate President Pervez Musharraf. Following a shootout with police, Atif was arrested in Karachi in 2004. He was sentenced to death in 2006 by the Anti-Terror ...
, an alleged member of
Harkat-ul Mujahideen al-Alami Harkat-ul-Mujahideen al-Alami () is a militant organization in Pakistan. In 2002, Kamran Atif a member of this organization, tried to assassinate President Pervez Musharraf. Arrested in 2004 during a police shoot-out, he was sentenced to death ...
, attempted to assassinate Musharraf; the ATC sentenced him to death in 2006. Following Musharraf's resignation in 2008, Pakistan places a moratorium on capital punishment, which lasted until 2012.


See also

* Anti-terrorism legislation in Pakistan *
Capital punishment in Pakistan Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Pakistan. Although there have been numerous amendments to the Constitution, there is yet to be a provision prohibiting the death penalty as a punitive remedy. A moratorium on executions was imposed in ...
*
Human rights in Pakistan The situation of human rights in Pakistan () is complex as a result of the country's diversity, large population, its status as a developing country and a sovereign Islamic democracy with a mixture of both Islamic and secular law. Overview T ...
* Anti-Terrorism Act 1997


References


External links


Pakistan Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Ordinance, 1999
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