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" POWERS UNDER ORDER VII, RULE 11, C AN EVIDENCE-BASED APPROACH TO REFORMING THE ANTI. TERRORISM LAW: CASE -STUDY OF PUNJAB   By Zulfiqar Hameed.   Since the beginning of 2005, Pakistan has faced an alarmingly high rate of terrorist attacks. These attacks spiked in 2009 and while they appeared to recede in 2011, the numbers are still worryingly large. Terrorist attacks are not new to Pakistan and as per one estimate; there have been at least 4438 incidents of terrorist, attacks in the country between 1974 and 2010'. These attacks subsided from 1997 to 2005, but touched unprecedented high numbers from 2007 to 2011. Figures of fatalities vary, but as per one estimate, there have been more than 40,000 fatalities, in terrorist attacks between 2003 and 2012 in Pakistan.2   Faced with such a serious onslaught of terrorism, Pakistan must reform its criminal justice system to ensure that the terrorism phenomenon is handled effectively, perpetrators are adequately punished, and the menace of terrorism is brought under control.   The law enforcement agencies and the civil legal institutions are the most appropriate forums to tackle terrorism however their performance is anything but satisfactory. The police and other civilian law enforcement agencies are barely equipped to handle the herculean challenge in front of them without a major reform effort'. The police force is poorly resourced, poorly trained, poorly paid, low in morale, scantily equipped and viewed with suspicion by courts and society due to a poor record of regard for human rights. There are minimal forensic facilities and other modern equipment to assist the police in doing its job. The situation in courts is similarly dismal, and there is wide, deep dissatisfaction with the courts' record in…