TY - JOUR AU - Raza, Syed Sami PY - 2017/12/15 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Anti-terrorism Legal Regime of Pakistan and the Global Paradigm of Security: A Genealogical and Comparative Analysis JF - Review of Human Rights JA - RHR VL - 2 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.35994/rhr.v2i1.74 UR - https://reviewhumanrights.com/index.php/RHR/article/view/74 SP - 4-35 AB - <p>Pakistan is often criticized for its anti-terrorism legal regime—which institutionalizes preventive indefinite detention, special courts, and speedy trials. Pakistani officials, on their part, rebut this criticism by pointing to the Anglo-American anti-terrorism legal regimes, and generally to “the global paradigm of security.” Interestingly, should we trace the genealogy of the anti-terrorism legal regime of Pakistan, we find rich historical-juridical linkages between the Pakistani and Anglo-American regimes. These linkages converge on, or at least begin from, the British law of high treason. This law was adopted in certain colonial regulations in the early 19<sup>th</sup> century. In this article I demonstrate how the legal form and substance of the high treason law and of certain other colonial regulations traveled through colonial and post-colonial security laws, such that they have recently come to converge with the global paradigm of security.</p> ER -