Overview

• The bill allows security forces, including the Pakistan Army and ISI, to detain suspects without court review for up to three months.
• Joint investigation teams of police and intelligence personnel can conduct terrorism inquiries under the new amendment.
• Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan have condemned the law as draconian and prone to mass arbitrary detentions.
• The rights group Paank reports over sixty-six extrajudicial killings of detainees in state custody this year and documents violent crackdowns on peaceful Baloch Yakjehti Committee protests.
• Provincial officials argue the amendment is essential to strengthen counterterror operations and ensure public safety.