The Cost of Judicial Activism - by Talha Ali Madni

Although the plan looked great on paper, the problem was that the project required the government to relax several terms in the Baluchistan Mineral Concession Rules, 1970 that rendered the project beyond the ambit of the existing law. [...] Possibly, the government would challenge the verdict, but the record shows that since 1960, around 600 parties have petitioned the ICSID for the annulment of the award, and only 17 have been successful.3 However, to avoid the hefty fine, the government may also choose to negotiate with TCC as the corporation’s management has Center for Research and Security Studies | 2020 7 The Cost of Judicial Ac. [...] Hence, by concluding the privatization of the mills as a violation of the public interest, it declared the mills’ privatization process as illegal because the acts of omissions and malpractices by the state functionaries had vitiated the process. [...] Concurrently, Pakistan also petitioned for the annulment of the award before the tribunal and an automatic stay was placed on the enforcement of the award according to the ICSID rules. [...] Our flagship publica are the NAP Tracker, an annual audit of the counter-terrorism/counter-extremism Na Plan (NAP) of the Government of Pakistan; and the Annual Security Report, a measure of the state of security in Pakistan by gauging the number of violence-related c across the country.