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Taking safety measures: Dr Ahmad Zahid looking through the draft of the proposed Prevention Of Terrorism Bill which is to be tabled in Parliament this month.

PUTRAJAYA: The proposed Prevention of Terrorism Act (Pota) is not a copy of the abolished Internal Security Act (ISA) and is necessary for the country to better contain local and foreign terrorists.

“It is purely a preventive law to deal with domestic terrorist threats and foreign terrorists coming into the country,” said Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi in an exclusive interview yesterday.

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