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India-Pakistan
‘NWFP can’t move ICJ against European papers’
2006-02-17
PESHAWAR: International law experts said on Thursday that NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani was not aware of the fact that only a stateÂ’s government could directly approach the International Court of Justice (ICJ), not a provincial government. In an emergency press conference held after the the violent protests over publication of caricatures of the Holy Prophet (PTUI pbuh) in Peshawar, which claimed the lives of three people and caused millions of rupees in damages to public and private property, issued directives to the advocate general (AG) to prepare a case on behalf of the NWFP government against the Danish cartoonist and publishers of the newspapers, to be lodged with the ICJ. The chief minister said that the NWFP government is going to submit a suit against the offending newspapers and also asked the federal government to file a suit on behalf of Pakistan.
Ummm... Because thousands of people on the other side of the world fouled their own nest? That makes sense. Not a lot of sense, but sense. In an Islamic kind of way. I guess.
Qazi Muhammad Jamil, and expert on international law, told Daily Times that only a state could move the ICJ against another state. In international law, federating units or provinces of a state could not approach the ICJ directly. He also pointed out that under international law, a state could not challenge an individual or group in the ICJ either.
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