The Anti Terrorism Court of Pakistan ( ur, عدالت انسداد دہشتگردی, ATC) was established in

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...

, under

Nawaz Sharif Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (Urdu, Punjabi language, Punjabi: ; born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani businessman and politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms. He is the longest-serving prime ...

'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 A supreme court is the highest court within the hierarchy of courts in most legal jurisdictions. Other descriptions for such courts include court of last resort, apex court, and high (or final) court of appeal. 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 judicial independence, independence of a judiciary, particularly in reference to the ...

'', 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.), p.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 General Pervez Musharraf ( ur, , Parvez Muśharraf; born 11 August 1943) is a former Pakistani politician and four-star general of the Pakistan Army who became the tenth president of Pakistan after the successful military takeover of the ...

's coup, Sharif enacted the 25 August 1999 Pakistan Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Ordinance which generalized the ATC system to all of the country.

Anti-terrorism courts under General Pervez Musharraf

Following

's 1999 coup, Nawaz Sharif was judged and given a life sentence in 2000 by the ATC, which was commuted into

exile Exile 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 and peoples suf ...

. ATC

sentenced to death Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ...

in 2006, Kamran Atif, an alleged member of Harkat-ul Mujahideen al-Alami who had attempted to assassinate Musharraf in 2002, and had been arrested two years later. Following Musharraf's resignation in 2008, a moratorium on capital punishment has been enacted, although it is not completely respected.

References

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Pakistan Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Ordinance, 1999
Terrorism in Pakistan Court system of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif administration Counterterrorism in Pakistan {{pakistan-gov-stub

1997 creation and subsequent amendments

Anti-terrorism courts under General Pervez Musharraf

See also

References

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