Urging the prime minister to impose an education emergency in Pakistan, Federal Science and Technology Minister Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui has said Pakistan needs to produce at least 25,000 IT…
How could a government – any government in the world – turn a hundred billion-dollar asset into an eleven billion-dollar liability? In 1993, BHP Billiton, an Australian mining company, engaged…
In the early 1990s, Pakistan’s biggest gold and copper reserve was discovered at Reko Diq in Chaghai District of Balochistan. Two international world-class mining companies - Barrick Gold Company and…
Pakistan ill-fatedly lost its multi-billion dollar, regarding probably the world’s largest copper-gold deposit, case in the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in 2019 against Australia-based company, Tethyan…
If we heard him right CM Balochistan is looking for local business groups to invest, something like $3 billion at first blush, in Reko Diq copper and gold mines. If…
Prime Minister wants to set up yet another Commission. The latest one seeks to assign responsibility for the abortion of Balochistan's Agreement with Tethyan Copper Company (TCC). The terms of…
Prime Minister wants to set up yet another Commission. The latest one seeks to assign responsibility for the abortion of Balochistan's Agreement with Tethyan Copper Company (TCC). The terms of…
On July 12, an arbitration tribunal of the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) awarded a massive $5.976bn (Rs950 billion) in damages to the Tethyan Copper…
Bad news has been coming recently of Pakistan losing the case in International tribunal on the Reko Diq case. The penalty expected varies from 300-400 million USD to many billions…
The arbitral tribunal of the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), before which one of the international arbitration proceedings were ongoing in the Reko Diq case,…
