Responding to criticism over a new counterterrorism law, Sen. Raza Rabbani has said the law “must not be used to put the fundamental rights of people at stake,” The Express Tribune reports. The Fair Trial Act allows the state to intercept private communications, including e-mails, SMSs, phone calls and audio-visual recordings, in order to arrest suspected terrorists. The law has been tabled in the National Assembly. “We must strike a balance between adopting modern techniques of investigations and the fundamental rights of the people,” said Barrister Zafarullah Khan.
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