Critical Approach to Pakistan’s Counter-Terrorism Legislative Framework

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" Critical Approach to Pakistan’s Counter-Terrorism Legislative Framework "
Durrani, Hafsa Akhavan, Payam

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1058889
Doc. No	:	TL58006
Main Entry	:	Durrani, Hafsa
Title & Author	:	Critical Approach to Pakistan’s Counter-Terrorism Legislative Framework\ Durrani, HafsaAkhavan, Payam
College	:	McGill University (Canada)
Date	:	2020
Degree	:	LL.M.
student score	:	2020
Note	:	129 p.
Abstract	:	Since the late 1970s, Pakistan has been struggling against terrorist violence. In the pursuit of security against this violence various governments have implemented numerous counterterrorism legislative measures, but terrorism remains a major issue for Pakistan today. Its counterterrorism measures have not been able to effectively and sustainably break free from terrorist violence. This thesis will employ the framework of Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) to explore the reasons for the ineffectiveness of Pakistan’s legislative countering terrorism measures. CTS proposes that security should be interpreted as human security and not national security and that violence should be understood to include both direct and indirect or structural violence. In doing so, it becomes clear to see how contemporary counterterrorism measures fail to provide security because they tend to circumvent procedural safeguards which then in fact lead to more insecurity and violence. Such strategies remain ineffective in the long-term as they add onto the existing layers of violence. In this thesis, I will demonstrate that Pakistan’s current counterterrorism laws are state-centric and overwhelmingly support violent strategies. This approach has helped the political and military elites to retain their power via political suppression. But it has led to implementing counterterrorism security measures that fail to address the underlying causes conducive to terrorism and instead contribute to inequalities and violence. This is why this thesis concludes that Pakistan should reject its violent counterterrorism approach for one that is committed to achieving emancipation from all types of violence (terrorist and counterterrorist), through means that are also non-violent, and are based on compassion, emancipation and empathy.
Descriptor	:	Counterterrorism
	:	Critical theory
	:	Expenditures
	:	International relations
	:	Politics
	:	Terrorism
	:	Violence
Added Entry	:	Akhavan, Payam
Added Entry	:	McGill University (Canada)