"That the Bill in substance is against the Fundamental Rights of the citizens as guaranteed in the constitution, specifically right to privacy. "This Bill may be arbitrarily used against the Political Workers and ordinary citizens because there is no effective and complete check over agencies and authorities mentioned in the Bill. God forbid, policy of political victimisation and policy of vendetta should start again dismantling the political stage, this bill may be used as a lethal weapon to achieve object of nefarious designs and plan.
"That many clauses of the Bill may be easily misused against any person by the executing authorities. "This Bill may be used to harass the service providers for some ulterior motives and unlawful gain and may cause or result in substantial loss to the economy of the country.
"In this Bill no protection has been provided for a person who wants to file a complaint against the applicants or the executing authorities as defined in the Bill for arbitrary use or misuse of this Bill. "However it will be appropriate and better if the Honourable President, Prime Minister and Interior Minister may discuss this Bill at my Party level to get support in passing of this Bill from both the Houses."
According to PML-N's note of dissent, "we, the members of the PML(N) on the Standing Committee for Law and Justice strongly protest at the manner in which the Investigation for Fair Trial Bill was bulldozed through the Committee on December 11, 2012. While we are not opposed to the basic objectives of the Bill relating to the need to provide for investigation/ collection of evidence by means of modern techniques and devices to prevent and effectively deal with offences re1ating to terrorism, we had suggested a number of amendments during the previous two meetings of the Committee to improve the Bill, including safeguards against its misuse and possible infringement of fundamental rights of citizens.
"Decisions on most of these proposals were deferred in the previous two meetings. Only a few were touched upon in the last meeting and when we attempted to raise the remaining proposals, the Chairperson abruptly cut short the discussion, closed the meeting and declared that the Bill had been passed, without indicating the fate of these proposals; "We are left with no alternative therefore but to formally record our dissent. We will be filing clause-wise amendments in the August House."