Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 23 April 2021 to Question 186166 on Pakistan: Counter-terrorism, what (a) safeguards and (b) legal framework his Department is using to help ensure that the Counter-terrorism Associated Prosecutorial Reforms Initiative programme is human rights compliant.

The Counter-terrorism Associated Prosecutorial Reforms Initiative (CAPRI) programme ran in Pakistan from 2013 to 2020, working to improve the capability of the police and criminal justice sector in Punjab. There is no allocated funding for the 2021-22 financial year. The programme was subject to strict legal and human rights frameworks including Overseas Security and Justice Assistance (OSJA) and oversight from Subject Matter Experts in-country, including a Criminal Justice Advisor and Counter Terrorism Policing Liaison Officer. We remain committed to working together with the Government of Pakistan to combat the terrorist threat and the extremism that sustains it, in a human rights compliant manner.