Pakistan’s Anti-Terrorism Measures and Its Implications

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Executive Summary:
The following topic discusses about the counter terrorisms measures in Pakistan as
well as their implications made by the government. The major focus of this topic is to make a
clear cut idea about whether the government actions have at all reduced the terror incidents in
not only Pakistan but also for all over the world. The United Nations councils strict anti-
terrorisms rule and regulations are also been addressed here. There are certain analyses are
being made over the data collected from different source of reports as well as questionnaires.
Lastly at the end a conclusion have been drawn stating that whether the counter terrorism is at
all welcomed properly or not.

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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction:.................................................................................................5
Chapter 2: literature review:...........................................................................................6
The domestic militant landscape of Pakistan.............................................................6
Pakistan’s challenge towards weak democracy:........................................................8
Rise of religious intolerance and violence...............................................................10
Crackdown to the political issues:............................................................................12
Engaging with Pakistani government:.....................................................................13
“Pakistan can only give excuses” :...........................................................................13
Summary of the study;.............................................................................................15
Chapter 3: methodological considerations:..................................................................17
Introduction to methodology and its rationale:........................................................17
Research hypothesis:................................................................................................18
Summary of key issues:...........................................................................................18
Research design:.......................................................................................................20
Research framework:...............................................................................................23
Research questions:..................................................................................................27
Aims of the topic:.....................................................................................................27
Objectives:................................................................................................................28
Data collection and generation:................................................................................29
Province analysis of the event :................................................................................33
Chapter 4: counter terrorism measures and its implications:.......................................35

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Reviving the strategy:..............................................................................................36
Resolutions of the anti-terrorism strategy:...............................................................36
Plan of action:..........................................................................................................40
Measures to address against terrorism and implementation of counter terrorisms:.41
Pakistan’s counter terrorism strategy:......................................................................43
Counter terrorism strategy under Musharraf era:.....................................................44
Military operations of Musharraf:............................................................................45
Role of the people party government in counter terrorism:.....................................47
Counter terrorism strategy in PML in 2013 to 2014:...............................................48
Chapter 5: conclusion:..................................................................................................49
Recommendation:....................................................................................................54
Identification of risks, policy development and collaboration:................................54
National cooperation and coordination:...................................................................54
Terrorists financing..................................................................................................56
References:...............................................................................................................57
Bibliography.................................................................................................................62

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Chapter 1: Introduction:
Counter- terrorisms which is also known as antiterrorism, incorporates the practise,
military tactics, techniques and strategy which the government, military, law enforcement,
business and intelligence agencies utilizes for the purpose of combating terrorism in the
country. Therefore, different strategies are applied for the purpose of ensuring that the acts of
terrorism can be controlled and minimized. The measures which are undertaken by the
government is to ensure that such terrorism activities are not financed in any manner.
However, the armed forces of US use the term foreign international defence for the
programmes which support the other countries in order to suppress insurgency and
lawlessness.
The study deals with the counter terrorism measures which have been implemented by
the government of Pakistan. It is from the time that Pakistan has gotten its independence that
the nation has been judged with the all kinds of terrorism activities and thus it has hampered
the nation’s growth as a whole. The impact of terrorism has impacted the nation in such a
manner that the lifestyle of people living in the country has also become stressed and hectic.
One other severe impact which can be identified in relation to terrorism on the economy is
the decline of GDP of the country which is often accompanied by rise in the price of goods
and services and also increase in the factor costs of the business. Some of the major cities of
Pakistan which are its trade centres have been affected. Hence the main focus of the study is
to focus on what measures have been taken by the Pakistani government in order to ensure
that no such terrorisms attacks occur in that country. The major trade centres of Pakistan like
Peshawar, Quetta and Islamabad which has suffered so much due to the terrorist attacks,
needs to be reinstated to its previous glory by making the people understand about the ill
effects which terrorism has on the economy as a whole 1. On the other hand, the Pakistani
1 La Porta, R., Lopez-de-Silanes, F., Shleifer, A. and Vishny, R., 2000. Investor protection and
corporate governance. Journal of financial economics, 58(1-2), pp.3-27.

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government needs to take positive actions to counter the terrorism by taking hard steps and
demolishing the terrorist groups from Pakistan. The terrorism in an economy plays an
immense effect on the global economy and countries like America, India and Russia have
raised their voices against terrorism. The study would be including the primary and secondary
research, press talks, interview words. Apart from thus the study also includes some research
methodology on the quantitative and qualitative data supporting the bad effects of the
terrorisms. On the other hand, the studies have also consisted of the measurements of the
anti-terrorisms policy and the impacts of the same in the financial and global markets of the
Pakistan.
Pakistan have been graded as second most affected country as per global terrorism
index, 2012. Over the past few decades it has been seen that Pakistan have been used up to
huge amount of expenditures in designing and implementing a good counter terrorism policy.
Hence there have been 25% of reduction in victims and 7% reduction in terrorist incidence
and 12% reduction in the count of death. Thus, the counter – terrorism activities needs to be
sustained so that the economy can stabilize and reform its markets. Additionally, the spread
of anti-terrorism capacity has raised considerably after the attacks of 9/11. The public cost of
the policies has been yielding at more than 50000 victims, 15700 military personals and
increased monitory costs. Thus, the focus of the study is to examine the policies and navigate
the attacks of counter terrorisms.
Chapter 2: literature review:
The domestic militant landscape of Pakistan
Pakistan has been an abode of numerous militant extremist and jihadi groups, which
have remained active even considering the current time. With the close operational links with
afghan Taliban and AL – Qaeda, the influence of militant extremist has increased

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significantly in the economy. The domestic militants of Pakistan can be categorized into two
major types and the same are briefly discussed in the paragraph shown below.
The first type is the domestic sectarian groups such as sunny–deobandi and sipah-e –
saheba Pakistan (ssp) and the lashkar – e jhangavi which operate by focusing cities and
population living in such cities. The second category covers the Pakistani Taliban which is
also known as tehrik–e–Taliban (TTP). They are considered to be brutal and is umbrella
organization. The Pakistani government in order to bring about law and order in the economy
introduced a new counter terrorism strategy which is known as the twenty-point national
plan. The Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif and Pakistani army general Raheel Sharif
have addressed that the all the terrorist’s groups are to be demolished and the new counter
terrorism strategy focused on the same. The aim of the government was also to ensure that
peace can be brought about in the affected areas where such terrorist groups were active.
Thus, heavily relying on the blunt instruments and adding the force to counter terrorism risks
does more harm to undermine constitutionalism, democratic governance and the new rules
focusing on jihad mill. It is therefore imperative for the government to introduce a justice
system which can help in maintaining peace and prosperity in the economy. The military
intervention towards the counter terrorism could well put a certain risk over Pakistan’s
evolution into a more civilised and democratic state. The transition towards democratic state
following anti-terrorisms policies which would make the state more prosperous and also curb
any jihadi sentiments which might be arising in the country. Hence the military’s continual
undermining of the civilian authority since the democratic revolution in 2008 will remain as a
major challenge and the political leadership strategy will be falling to push back in order to
undermine creativity and authority2. After the inauguration of NAP, the Sharif government
2 Kfir, I., 2014. Sectarian violence and social group identity in Pakistan. Studies in Conflict &
Terrorism, 37(6), pp.457-472.

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will be implemented so that two majoe changes can be brought about and the predecessor
will be subjected to assign death penalty. On 6th January, 2015 the country on the 21st
amendment of law has addressed that the militants will try to end all the terrorist parties
which are active in different parts of Pakistan. The governmental policies which are
formulated is to provide some powers to the military so that they can take actions for
eradicating terrorism in the country. The actions and steps which are taken by the military
would be reviewed by an apex committee. Despite the claims to the country, the military who
have almost complete control over the national security and counter terrorism policies
targeting the jihadi groups. The security forces would also ensure that the national borders
of India and Afghanistan is maintained. Anti-India outfits will be having their activities
through the so-called charity fronts. The military based afghan insurgents, such as haqqini
network and they have targeted towards ongoing operation in the North Waziristan agency
federally administrated tribal areas. Instead they have been kept out of the terrorist’s groups.
Thus, empowered resourced police force remains the most creative tools for enforcing a
sustained and successful counter terrorism activity. It emphasises on the revenge and
retribution strategy of the law to undermine the citizen confidence and enforce fundamental
rights and rules towards law which will also fuel up grievances.
Pakistan’s challenge towards weak democracy:
The Imran khan government will now eye towards the repressing opposition voices
and preparing secretaries. Hence the policy makers, crisis group will be urging the EU to help
Pakistan to abide by the international commitments and keep on supporting the democratic
governance. However, the supreme court of Pakistan on 30th October have overturned death
sentence of a Christian women who was associated with the jihadi groups countrywide
demanding on the verdict’s reversal. All these protests have been ended towards the