Anti Terrorism Court of Pakistan explained
The Anti Terrorism Court of Pakistan (Urdu: عدالت انسداد دہشتگردی, ATC) was established in Pakistan in 1997, under Nawaz Sharif's government, to deal with terrorism cases.
1997 creation and subsequent amendments
See main article: Anti-Terrorism Act 1997. 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 judgment (Merham Ali versus Federation of Pakistan, 1998) declaring most of its provisions unconstitutional.[1] A short time before being ousted from power by Pervez Musharraf's coup, Sharif enacted the 25 August 1999 Pakistan Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Ordinance which generalized the ATC system to all the country.[1]
Anti-terrorism courts under General Pervez Musharraf
Following Pervez Musharraf's 1999 coup, Nawaz Sharif was judged and given a life sentence in 2000 by the ATC,[2] which was commuted into exile.[3]
In 2000, Kamran Atif, an alleged member of Harkat-ul Mujahideen al-Alami, attempted to assassinate Musharraf; the ATC sentenced him to death in 2006.[4] Following Musharraf's resignation in 2008, Pakistan places a moratorium on capital punishment,[5] which lasted until 2012.[6]
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- News: Sharif sentenced to life for Musharraf plot . . 6 April 2000 . 11 February 2024 . Karachi . Harding . Luke . 6 February 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230206221443/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/07/pakistan.lukeharding . live.
- News: Events Leading to the Exile and Return of Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif . . 20 October 2023 . 11 February 2024 . Shahzad . Asif . 20 October 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231020082101/https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-10-20/events-leading-to-the-exile-and-return-of-pakistans-nawaz-sharif . live.
- News: General Musharraf: A soldier for all terrains -- from deceit to defiance . . 5 February 2023 . 2024-02-11 . Saxena . Prashant . 19 March 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230319170606/https://www.newindianexpress.com/web-only/2023/feb/05/general-musharraf-a-soldier-for-all-terrains-from-deceit-to-defiance-2544609.html . live.
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- News: Pakistani soldier Muhammed Hussain is executed for murder . . 15 November 2012 . 11 February 2024 . 10 October 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231010114935/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-20337183 . live.
