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Print Print 2019-07-22

Partly Facetious : International arbitration

"Pakistan is going to drag India through the International Court of Justice on Kashmir."
Published July 22, 2019

"Pakistan is going to drag India through the International Court of Justice on Kashmir."
"A word of warning!"
"Stop; the entire country is totally in favour of this move. Let the international court decide..."
"Maybe I used the wrong word; how about a word of caution."
"If you dare mention Azad Jammu and Kashmir, let me inform you that there is no comparison, like night and day and..."
"Agreed, though perhaps you need to revisit your choice of words - night and day are components of a single 24 hour cycle. Anyway why don't you listen to me and then blast my rationale to kingdom come."
"Talking of the Kingdom I heard that the Saudi Crown Prince called our Prince Khan, while our Foreign Minister lamented the lack of support by the Muslim countries and..."
"Don't change the subject. Please hear me out. I simply wanted to urge the government to ensure that the lawyer hired for the case against India is a good one. I mean recently we have lost all our cases in the international arbitration court which have already cost us millions in legal fees as well as billions of dollars in reparations. Examples include Reko Diq, Turkish rental power ship as well as the Kishanganga case and..."
"Hey, we won the Jadhav case!"
"Because there was overwhelming evidence and..."
"That's no criteria - evidence in nearly all cases of domestic corruption requiring the return of stolen public wealth is also overwhelming but no significant amount has been credited to our treasury."
"Nawaz Sharif is convicted!"
"True, but has any money been reimbursed to the treasury, and don't speculate - I also have heard that the Qataris injection into our economy may be related to the Sharif family but speculation is not the same as hard evidence."
"I agree, so our prosecution branch is weak and what has the Law Minister done to sort that out?"
"The FIA is investigating the case of the judge whose compromising video was the subject of the former First Daughter's press conference and..."
"All I am saying is that the government needs to hire the right lawyers..."
"What about the lawyers hired by the two former First Families - the Sharifs and the Zardaris?"
"Well, the former win cases when the party is in power or a deal has been struck while the latter have focused on delays and more delays till the political situation changes..."
"Is that because of the lawyers or other factors?"
"Don't be facetious. But there is one difference between the Sharifs and the Zardari lawyers - the former pay their lawyers while the latter don't."
"Hmmm, that's a big difference - anyway we need to get a bunch of good lawyers working inside and outside the country."
"Agreed."

Copyright Business Recorder, 2019

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