Doctrine of State Sovereignty
LAHORE: This is with anxiety to a US Congress voting opposite President Barack Obama’s halt to stop a check giving rights to particular Americans for suing a Saudi supervision for waste incurred in a 9/11 attacks. By doing so, a US Congress has jeopardised a Doctrine of State Sovereignty, that postulated shield to states from charge by particular adults and restricting this right to states only.
There is no decisive justification that a Saudi supervision was directly concerned in a funding, training or formulation of 9/11. This halt would set a bad fashion for a US government, that could face identical charge by adults of other countries who have suffered detriment of life or skill during a hands of a US. For example, Pakistani victims of US worker strikes could sue a US in internal courts.
This should incite governments in Africa and Asia whose unfamiliar pot are parked in banks within a US for safekeeping. Pakistan itself has jeopardised a unfamiliar sell reserves, when, during a tenures of General (retd) Pervez Musharraf and Shaukat Aziz, a bulk of them were deposited in an American bank, where a former primary apportion had once served. It is time critical financial institutions and regulatory bodies were not headed by people with separate loyalties.
Pakistan is, perhaps, among a few nations whose countless rulers, when not holding office, cite to live in unfamiliar countries. Even a sitting primary apportion had no perplexity to stop in London where his family lives, on his approach behind after addressing a UN General Assembly, during a time when there were heightened tensions along a Pakistan-India limit since Prime Minister Narendra Modi elite to stay back, cancelling his unfamiliar trip.
Ali Malik
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 4th, 2016.
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