Establishing Terrorists Detention Facilities (TDF)
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2017
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UMT.Lahore
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This study aims to explore the challenges and prospects in the establishment of terrorist detention facilities in Pakistan after 9/11. This interpretive study first attends to the question that how Pakistan’s existing prison infrastructure was used for detaining Al-Qaeda and/or Taliban associated terrorists. Second, when and why the need arose for developing a dedicated terrorist detention facility (TDF); and finally, what are the internal and external security related vulnerabilities of a TDF and how do they put at risk adjoining urban settlements? The research found some collateral action by the state in response to previous jailbreaks. The new paradigm for terrorist detention was adopted which focused on dedicated terrorist detention facilities. However, the fallout of this approach was that adjoining civilian settlements faced problems of economic insecurity, hampered mobility, and communication barriers due to installment of signal jammers. In addition, certain challenges of old prisons persisted that involved internal negligence, institutional incapacities, and connivance .Risk Society Theory was applied for analyzing the strategy emanating from Pakistan’s security apparatus. Alternately, the ‘freedom from fear’ strand of Human Security Theory was utilized which established that fear of terrorist attacks was present in the daily lives of civilian settlements present in the vicinity of a TDF.