You fellows are so simplistic! It is a classic good cop, bad cop technique by the jewish bloody sucking leeches who want to steal this wealth. What is the potential of Reko? Some estimates about $500 Billion of Gold.
Think about the barbarism here - these mines belong to the People of Pakistan. And yet they cannot extract mineral wealth from these mines and cannot even decide who has the legal right to do this just because a FOREIGN Entity sitting thousands of miles away decides the fate of a mine located in a so called sovereign country!
Anyone sitting in the corridors of Power in Pakistan including the Military should be shamed of themselves for allowing such horrendous act to take place.
And then reconfirms my personal belief that this country is in total control of a vicious mafia who steals the wealth of this country whenever it likes, and keeps the people of this country slaves.
I'm sure we all feel the same way you do. However, the problem is the Pakistan is
simply too weak to do anything about it. If this was China, you can bet that they would have been able to arm-twist this company, the international court they used, and whatever international organization necessary to get them an outcome that favors their national interest.
The only way Pakistan can avoid this company is to
leave the WTO (World Trade Organization) and due what many argue for, full Islamic state using currency based on gold-standard. You can also tell the IMF to go screw themselves and not pay back their loans, or at least give back the principal without interest. The problem is that foreign investors, aside from GCC & maybe China, will probably avoid investing in Pakistan due to lack of international arbitration like this one. Pakistan, unfortunately, is dependent on foreign investors like these for almost everything.
(1) it is an importing nation
(2) it can hardly produce anything aside from agriculture & textiles
(3) it has no engineering & industrial base to sustain the country let alone power its industrialization (1960's were the opposite).
(4) it does not even have the technology to mine its own natural resources
(5)
it does not even have the technology to build or upgrade its railways!
in order to avoid this settlement, Pakistan needs to be able to stand on its feet.
It must be able to produce everything indigenous and locally. Iran is an example to follow. They were & are sanctioned to the teeth, yet they still produce electronics, oil & gas extraction plants, ships, cars, rail, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, etc. They have come a long way in becoming self-sufficient. Just look at they shot down the drone in the Gulf with their own SAM? On the other hand, Pakistan is begging China to build or upgrade its railways/highways/ports. These are all basic things that country like Pakistan should be able to do.
Iran has connected its country with rail & roads by itself, yet Pakistan has pay billions to China just to build rail!
Pakistan doesn't have the education system or STEM "science technology engineering mathematics" base to achieve similar level of self-sufficiency. The only real effort made to improve education & STEM base was during Musharraf's time under leadership of Atta-ur-Rehman. The moment democracy kicked in with Zardari, HEC lost funding, the rest is history.
Now Atta-ur-Rehman is working under PTI to revive focus on education, the problem is that Imran Khan is too weak politically to do anything. He doesn't have majority and is blackmailed by parties that won as little as one seat. There is the issue of having no money.
Now there is the issue of no one wanting to pay taxes. Here in the US, K-12 public school education is free due to the revenue gained from taxpayers. As long as Pakistani's do not pay taxes, you cannot afford to fund education on a massive scale. You can't even afford to build roads, rail, dams, ports, etc. That's why Pakistan will continue to hold the begging bowl as long as people continue to protest against taxes.
