The Security State in Pakistan: Legal Foundations

ISBN-13: 9780367586867 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 174 str.

Syed Raza

Opis

The book examines the legal regime of security in Pakistan. It revolves around the oncept of "precarity" of life and rights in the face of a growing legal security regime in the country.

Spis treści

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Colonial State of Security

Chapter 2: The Post-colonial State of Security

Chapter 3: The Anti-Terrorism Act, ATA (1997)

Chapter 4: Expansion and Entrenchment of the Legal Regime of Security

Chapter 5: Security and the Absolute Right to Life: Critical Reflections on the Revival of Capital Punishment

Chapter 6: Aliens, Identity, and Legal Regime of Security on the Border

Chapter 7: Epilogue: Kharotabad Killings: Security and Political Responsibility

Table of Cases

Table of Laws

End Notes

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Syed Sami Raza received his PhD from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, US. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Peshawar, Pakistan.