Pakistan
Dawn | 13-Jun-2018
Pakistan may be at the risk of new investment arbitration lawsuits if it formally signs an international Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) under which powerful investors have already sued other states for $35 billion at various global tribunals.
Express Tribune | 14-May-2018
The company exaggerated its future profits by underrating tax and royalty obligations by as much as 61 per cent, officials said.
The Nation | 20-Mar-2018
Pakistan has been an observer to the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) since 2005 and has subsequently indicated its intention to become a full member.
Express Tribune | 8-Feb-2018
As a National Accountability Bureau inquiry into alleged embezzlement in Reko Diq case remains on hold, various stakeholders made contradictory claims before the Public Accounts Committee about people who could be blamed for any corruption in the deal.
Express Tribune | 22-Jan-2018
The TCC tribunal failure did not reflect an internal failure on the part of Pakistan’s state apparatus as much as it did the hegemonic nature of the global BIT regime that developing countries have been subjected to by the West.
Express Tribune | 2-Jan-2018
The government has spent over Rs2 billion to win a case in the international court over the acquisition of assets of Progas Pakistan Limited company – worth Rs2.3 billion.
Express Tribune | 15-Dec-2017
Last year, Pakistan won a case against the UK-based shareholder of Progas Pakistan in the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes.
The Express Tribune | 13-Nov-2017
Pakistan has successfully gotten a stay order from the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) over the execution of an $800 million award to Karkey Karadeniz Elektrik Uretim (Karkey).
Business Recorder | 16-Oct-2017
The government of Pakistan would not be made liable for private investor disputes. Alternative dispute resolution mediation would be made compulsory, while foreign arbitrators would be decided in advance through consensus.
The Express Tribune | 2-Oct-2017
Senior government officials have claimed that the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) overlooked Pakistan’s claim of corruption while deciding in favour of Karkey Karadeniz Elektrik Uretim over a rental power project (RPP) dispute.
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Ecologistas en Acción | 22-Jun-2018
Ante el anuncio de la Unión Europea de la puesta en marcha de nueve grandes acuerdos nuevos durante 2018, se ha creado la campaña estatal ‘No a los tratados de comercio e inversión’. Su objetivo: ampliar la información a la ciudadanía, trabajar en la incidencia política y continuar con el activismo y la movilización social.
Expansión | 22-Jun-2018
El Ciadi ha dictado un laudo arbitral que obliga a España a pagar 112 millones de euros a Antin por el recorte de las primas a las energías renovables en el que es su tercer fallo contra el país.
TACD | 22-Jun-2018
TACD’s resolution recommends that rather than pursuing procedural changes through a MIC at the global level, the EU and US should refrain from including investor-state dispute settlement in any form from any agreement.
No al TTIP | 21-Jun-2018
La campaña contra los Tratados de Comercio e Inversión, formada por más de 30 organizaciones de la sociedad civil, se presentó ayer con un objetivo fundamental: que se conozcan y se discutan públicamente los distintos acuerdos con los que la Unión Europea quiere profundizar su política comercial.
IISD | 20-Jun-2018
The Energy Charter Treaty was recently described, somewhat ominously, as “one treaty to rule them all”—ever-expanding and giving the power to corporations “to halt the energy transition.”
Both Ends | 20-Jun-2018
Both ENDS a envoyé une lettre, signée par différentes organisations de la société civile, à la Ministre néerlandaise du commerce et du développement, l’incitant à terminer le traité bilatéral d’investissement entre les Pays Bas et Burkina Faso.