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Law ministry sticks to its guns over $20 billion LNG deal

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28.07.2025
The law ministry has denounced the petroleum ministry’s preference for awarding a $20billion LNG contract to the transnational consortium GDF-Suez. Officials in the law ministry issued the second consecutive legal opinion damning the deal favoured by the petroleum ministry. The stakes are high as is evident from the fact that lawyer SM Zafar was engaged for Rs7 million to defend the petroleum ministry’s decision to award the contract to the Franco-American consortium, GDF-Suez. This is an unusual precedent for any government institution. The bid to convince the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) members to uphold the opinion given by the associate of a private firm in disregard of the law ministry’s objections, whose mandate it is to scrutinise deals before their execution, fell through. Disappointed with the law ministry’s verdict, petroleum........

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