Three decades ago, Moeen Qureshi, a Pakistani-American economist and former caretaker prime minister, envisioned unlocking Pakistan’s vast mineral wealth. He championed a vision of attracting international mining giants, advocating for…
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…
They say democracy is the best form of government. We have tried all forms of governments but the country failed to progress the way some other countries in the region…
Textile is the mainstay of Pakistan exports, about 60% of the total in 2021-22. Pakistan’s share in global textile trade, however, has been declining. In order to protect and enhance…
Over the last three years Pakistan has changed, but perhaps not in the way we had hoped or expected. The change that has affected us the most has been the…
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…
Any episode that creates suspense and thrill quickly grabs public attention. People glue themselves to various types of news media to know what will happen next. In our case, Broadsheet…
In the landmark case of Eckhardt, the (late) Justice Ajmal Mian cautioned that "...while dealing with an application ... in relation to a foreign arbitration clause like the one in…
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…
How does Pakistan perform in international courts of justice? The answer is: it doesn’t perform well. At least two cases strongly reflect successive Pakistani governments’ approach to global litigation. The…
