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DAWN News: Minister nominates himself for lucrative foreign assignment
Monday, 08 Mar, 2010
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The law ministry had put the minister’s name at the top of the four-member list of legal experts recommended to the International Arbitration Forum for future assignments at the International Arbitration Court. – Photo by APP.
ISLAMABAD: Federal Law Minister Babar Awan has nominated himself for an international assignment worth millions of dollars. A former Supreme Court judge and a former attorney general, who had backed the proclamation of emergency of Nov 3, 2007, have also been nominated for the assignment, according to sources.
The law ministry had put the minister’s name at the top of the four-member list of legal experts recommended to the International Arbitration Forum for future assignments at the International Arbitration Court (IAC), the sources said. The lawyers recommended by various countries are put on a panel from which parties to a dispute choose experts from.
“Lawyers who are finally selected from the panel by the disputing international parties get paid up to millions of dollars in fee,” said Malik Saeed Khan, a former judge of Lahore High Court, who has been nominated by Pakistan in an international arbitration involving France and Pakistan over the nuclear reprocessing plant dispute.
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Wow!. Is this going to continue happening in Pakistan, indefinitely ?
