Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif wrote to all political parties asking they support the Pakistan Protection Ordinance (PPO) on Saturday, Express News reported.
The PPO deals with overarching issues related to security of the people, clamping hard on anti-state elements with a mission to implement swift justice on part of the law enforcement agencies.
President Mamnoon Hussain had approved the PPO last Sunday on advice from the prime minister.
The prime minister has now written a letter to all the parties indicating how the post 9/11 Pakistan has been suffering from massive security problems.
He said years of dictatorship, corruption and the absence of powerful legislation had allowed criminals to roam around on loose, and this had to stop.
On the other hand, Opposition Leader Khursheed Shah wrote to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif asking for the implementation of decisions reached in the All Parties Conference.
He said a mandate for negotiations with the Taliban had been handed to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, but that mandate has yet be enacted upon.
Features of the Ordinance
According to the new Ordinance, “Security of life, property and dignified living of our own people shall be the prime goal for all functionaries of the state.”
“Writ of the state shall be restored with full might of the law; those to pursue fruit of terror and fear, regardless of nationality, color, creed or religion shall be treated as enemy aliens and dealt with strictly without any compunction”, the ordinance stated.
The new proposition thus promises to rescue the nation from crime and terror through new laws that will be extraordinarily stringent.
The following are said to be some of the main features of the Ordinance:
1. Every possible state instrument and resource will be deployed to defeat and frustrate all or any nefarious attempt to create disorder.
2.The cancer of syndicated crime, in all its forms and manifestations, shall be responded by proportionate use of state force under the law.
3. Separate police stations will be designated for professional and expeditious investigations of specified crime, prosecuted through federal Prosecutors.
4. Special Federal Courts shall be designated to render inexpensive justice with promptitude as mandated by Article 37.
5. Joint investigation teams shall be constituted to conduct investigations by security agencies and police in all heinous crimes committed in areas where civil armed forces are invited to aid civil power.
6. Those involved in syndicated crime shall be relocated to other parts of the country for transparency and fair trial.
7. Judicious and effective use of preventive detentions shall be made in cases involving serious crimes by criminal gangs and mafias.
8. Special jails shall be designated to detain hardened criminals and the minimum quantum of punishments is now re-determined at ten years.
9. The state will not allow Afghan immigrants or other foreign nationals to be used for terrorist purposes.
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