LAST month, at its 49th meeting, the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan, chaired by the chief justice, recommended establishing an ‘International Commercial Court of Pakistan’ through a new Article 212A in the Constitution. Its stated aims — swift resolution of commercial disputes, stronger enforcement of arbitral awar­­ds, investor confidence, and Pakistan as a credible destination for capital — are exactly right, and I welcome the ambition. But as one who has spent years close to this w...