Reko-Diq: people of Baluchistan vs. global mining companies (updated)

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UPDATE In the Supreme Court of Pakistan a short order was passed today (January 7, 2013) in which the original agreement and its appendages signed by the Balochistan Development Authority with the foreign companies “is held to have been executed contrary to the provision of the Mineral Development Act, 1948, the Mining Concession Rules, 1970 framed thereunder, the Contract Act, 1872, the Transfer of Property Act, 1882, etc., and is even otherwise not valid, therefore the same is declared to be illegal, void and non est.”

 

June 13, 2012 In a case before the Pakistan Supreme Court, lawyer Usman Kazim Jamil describes how bad governance and lack of transparency are threatening to deprive the people of Baluchistan province with rightful access to and ownership of the largest deposits of copper and gold in the sub-continent.  The lawyers are requesting the Court to stay the case from going to international arbitration so it may be resolved in the local courts instead.

(Broadcast on WPKN 89.5 Bridgeport, CT on June 13, 2012)
 
 
 
 

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  1. T.C.C. was given license only for geological estimation of Reko-Diq copper-gold reserves which has been completed. While they do not have mining and ore processing rights for which they have insisted to go to international arbitration.

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