UAPA Is Not a Weapon to Silence Voices; It Is a Mechanism to Silence Violence Before It Erupts

 

Advocate Mudasir Yaqoob

 

 

UAPA is not a weapon to silence voices; it is a mechanism to silence violence before it erupts.If we don’t defend the laws that defend us, then we hand victory to those who want to destroy us.
Those who have not examined the anatomy of terror, or the fragile architecture of public order, often misunderstand this fundamental truth. Preventive laws are not born out of arrogance; they are born out of necessity—etched into the statute book because the Republic has repeatedly confronted forces that do not negotiate, do not coexist, and do not believe in the Constitution they seek to exploit.

 

 

 

 

 

Yet the tragedy is not that these laws exist; the tragedy is that we have allowed a damaging perception to grow around them. NSA, PSA, UAPA—each of them labelled “draconian,” not because their purpose is sinister, but because we, as institutions, have failed to defend them with the intellectual rigour and constitutional clarity they demand. A preventive law becomes feared only when poorly explained; it becomes controversial only when poorly implemented. The absence of solid dossiers, the lack of coherent reasoning, and the inability to present persuasive legal foundations are what convert a protective statute into a misunderstood villain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A nation cannot afford to wait for an explosion before recognising a threat. Civil liberties are sacred, but they do not flourish in a climate where fear dictates daily life. These laws were crafted to strike at the embryo of violence, not the expression of dissent. They are the tools that intercept recruitment, freeze funding, disrupt sleeper cells, and prevent young minds from being hijacked by ideologies that worship destruction.

 

 

 

 

Critics often win the narrative not because they are right, but because those entrusted with defending these laws fail to articulate their constitutional morality. The law is not on the defensive—our commitment to explaining and applying it is.

 

 

 

 

NSA, PSA, UAPA are not instruments of oppression; they are instruments of survival.
And survival is the first liberty upon which every other freedom is built.

 

 

 

 

If we fail to defend the laws that defend us, we create a vacuum where fear, not freedom, takes control.
These legislations are not the enemies of liberty—they are the silent architects that make liberty possible!