(ii) COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD (CRC) Pakistan ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in 1990. In its Concluding Observations on Pakistan’s fifth periodic report issued in July 201613, the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the monitoring body of the UNCRC, noted with alarm the application of the death penalty on juvenile offenders under the ATA, terming it a human rights violation inherent under the ATA. The Committee additionally observed the juvenile offenders sentenced to death had limited access to procedures for challenging their sentence on the basis of their age. Thereby, the CRC directed the government to ensure that all stages of cases involving juveniles are overseen by juvenile courts, even those concerning terrorism. (iii) COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE (CAT) Pakistan ratified the UN Convention against Torture (UNCAT) in 2008. The Committee Against Torture, the monitoring body of the UNCAT, in its concluding observations on Pakistan’s initial report stated with concern that Pakistan’s counter terrorism legislation, chiefly the Anti-Terrorism Act, eliminated legal safeguards against torture that were otherwise provided to persons deprived of their liberty. The Committee noted that the legislation allows security agencies to detain any person suspected of committing an offence under the ATA for up to three months in clear violation of the provision of the Convention. The Committee recommended that the ATA should be repealed or amended to ensure that persons deprived of their liberty had access to legal safeguards against torture and arbitrary arrest and detention. 13 Committee on the Rights of the Child, Concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of Pakistan, 11 July 2016, Accessed at: http://docstore.ohchr.org/SelfServices/FilesHandler.ashx ?enc=6QkG1d%2fPPRiCAqhKb7yhsj6w6N%2f47zTb2GZCw8ZJMH Bo% 2fKlxkcysXmsISop1yo0QfaT1E6yAhOmn1FhkSztV8IkZY%2f0FcydIBPHSpz3tSnn6uT1XlVbgwtgC5kzi77Xw 14 Committee against Torture, Concluding observations on the initial report of Pakistan, 1 June 2017, Accessed at: http://doc store.ohchr.org/SelfServices/FilesHandler.ashx?enc=6QkG1d%2fPPRiCAqhKb7yhsgtfJm%2bHg0lSmJyv0jaC3TzAJeutm6y rgXJIVjuF22ng8BZ7wV1kAzb7NUPDGkasYZmwEAkxcWxJLHQpI07R4Vt5Zh2ids2P%2bUSoPSydL0LF TRIAL AND TERROR 06