Ahmad Ghouri
Dr Ghouri is an expert in international investment and commercial arbitration and Shariah compliant dispute resolution. As a practising lawyer in Pakistan, he has extensive experience in commercial law and dispute resolution and regularly advises private and public organisations and government ministries. He teaches commercial law at the University of Sussex covering both domestic and international contexts and a wide range of subjects including international investment law, international commercial arbitration, corporate law and governance, and Islamic commercial law.
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Russia took the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council on 1 April. The role is held by each of the member states in turn for one month, in...![The exterior of the International Criminal Court is seen in The Hague, Netherlands. [Pierre Crom/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/GettyImages-1248457843-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Given the slow and selective investigations of alleged war crimes in Palestine and Afghanistan, the International Criminal Court's speedy warrant to put Russian President Vladimir Putin on trial for...![Iranians attend a funeral procession carrying the remains of 200 Iranian soldiers recovered from former battlefields of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988)[Fatemeh Bahrami - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/AA-20221227-29845702-29845695-FUNERAL_PROCESSION_200_IRANIAN_SOLDIERS_OF_IRANIRAQ_WAR_IN_TEHRAN____.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Iraq paid a total of $52.4 billion in war reparations that it owed for Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Iraq was compelled to make this payment when the...
Non-intervention principle in international law Article 2.7 of the United Nations (UN) Charter provides that "Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in ...