ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the security practices that involve the use of lethal force sanctioned by law, which create a legal regime of security derogatory to human rights on the borderland. It emphasises the different responses to highlight the tendency towards discrimination in the criminal justice system of Pakistan, inasmuch as its operation rests on the political condition of personal identity rather than the ethical and empathic conditions of human rights law. The chapter highlights that the system makes distinctions in personal legal identity of individuals in matters as basic as the right to life. It argues that the practice of making these identity-difference distinctions in the personal legal status of individuals does not just victimise aliens/non-citizens but also, at times, victimises citizens. The chapter examines the latest security laws, the Protection of Pakistan laws, and how they create the possibility of enacting violence against non-citizens.
