Pakistan’s new legislation declares terrorists as enemy of state

President Mamnoon Hussain Sunday promulgated an ordinance which declares terrorists as enemies of state who will be tried in special courts.

The new law has been proposed to effectively deal with the issue of terrorism as there is no let up in militant attacks on the security forces and civilians.

“Writ of the state shall be restored with full might of the law; those to pursue fruit of terror and fear, regardless of nationality, color, creed or religion shall be treated as enemy aliens and dealt with strictly without any compunction,” the new legislation said.

The Pakistan Protection Ordinance said every possible state instrument and resource will be deployed to defeat and frustrate all or any nefarious attempt to create disorder in peaceful life and living.

The ordinance will be presented in the parliament for approval, officials said and argued that new legislative initiatives have been proposed in line with international best practices.

Special jails shall be designated to detain hardened criminals under the law which also says separate police stations to be designated for professional and expeditious investigations of specified crime, prosecuted through federal Prosecutors

Joint investigation Teams shall be constituted to conduct investigations by Security agencies and police in all heinous crimes committed in areas where forces are invited to aid civil power.

Special Federal Courts shall be designated to render inexpensive justice with promptitude as mandated by the constitution and those involved in syndicated crime shall be relocated in rest of the country for transparency and fair trial under.

The law said that all civil and military law enforcement agencies and their personnel where invited shall be given fullest protection of law to discharge their mission of restoration of peace in enabling environment within the parameters of the Constitution.

Officials defended the new law to deal with the elements hostile to Pakistan’s existence who have claimed 40,000 lives since 2001 in collaboration with unscrupulous locals. Over 4,000 soldiers and officers lost their lives to ensure that world at large remains at peace during last 11 years alone.

A government spokesman said that besides human losses, terrorism has caused the colossal damage of over US$ 100 billion was inflicted to the social and physical infrastructure.