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PIDW26 — Pakistan International Disputes Weekend

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OCT 26

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The Honourable Mr Justice Waksman

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PIDW'26 Keynote Speaker

The Honourable
Mr Justice Waksman

High Court Judge, King's Bench Division
Commercial Court of England and Wales

PIDW is honoured to welcome Mr Justice Waksman as the keynote speaker for PIDW'26. Appointed Judge in Charge of the Commercial Court for a two-year term beginning 1 September 2026, he brings distinguished judicial experience across commercial, technology, construction, competition, and administrative matters.

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A platform with a purpose

Building the Disputes Ecosystem Pakistan Needs.

PIDW is building a disputes ecosystem: one that brings law, policy, projects, capital, and commercial decision-making into the same room.

  1. Review

    Examine emerging case law, contract practice, and institutional approaches shaping complex disputes.

  2. Reflect

    Bring global and local perspectives together to test what works across borders and sectors.

  3. Revive

    Turn shared insight into stronger dispute-avoidance and resolution practice for the region.

Four operating lanes

One platform.
Four ways forward.

PIDW26 now

The next chapter meets in Islamabad.

When10–11 October 2026
WhereIslamabad Marriott Hotel
AccessRSVP-only event
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Find your route

What are you here to do?

Choose the next step that matches your purpose.

Flagship initiatives

Ideas built to travel beyond the weekend.

$100 Billion Opportunity.
CPEC Needs World-Class Dispute Resolvers.
PIDW is your Gateway.

Show your interest in the CPEC Roster

PIDW26 and CPEC

Illustrative intermodal logistics corridor with port, freight rail, and highway infrastructure
Illustrative mountain transport and clean-energy corridor with rail, highway, and hydropower infrastructure

15

Completed Energy Projects

24+

Major Infrastructure Developments

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Streamlined Gateway to CPEC Disputes

2013–2026

CPEC Journey

  1. The CPEC Memorandum of Understanding is signed on 5 July, establishing the corridor's formal cooperation framework.

  2. Early-harvest cooperation moves the corridor from framework planning into major energy and transport delivery.

  3. The CPEC Long Term Plan 2017–2030 sets out the programme's longer development horizon.

  4. Major assets continue entering service, including the operational Karot Hydropower Project, as the 11th Joint Cooperation Committee reviews progress and wider cooperation.

  5. Suki Kinari Hydropower and New Gwadar International Airport join the growing portfolio of completed CPEC assets.

  6. PIDW26 focuses the disputes community on operational contracts, dispute avoidance, and the claims that can follow completed construction.

Interested in CPEC dispute work? Show your interest

Dispute readiness for the next project cycle

PIDW Introduces the CPEC Roster

A selective group of arbitrators, adjudicators, mediators, dispute-board practitioners, and claims professionals with experience relevant to CPEC-linked construction, infrastructure, energy, power, and operational disputes.

From delivery to operation

Complex projects do not stop creating risk when construction ends.

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As the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) enters the mature stages of project delivery and operation, a new phase is beginning: the resolution of disputes arising from $100 Billion infrastructure and investment economic corridors.

Complex questions of contract administration, delay, variation, payment, claims, adjudication, dispute boards and arbitration are increasingly becoming relevant across CPEC projects. For the international arbitration and dispute resolution community, this creates an important opportunity to engage early with the market and the stakeholders who will shape the next phase of CPEC dispute resolution.

PIDW26 is the gateway.

PIDW is the bridge between international arbitrators, adjudicators, mediators, dispute board members, experts, counsel and arbitral institutions and the contractors, employers, project owners, government entities, in-house counsel and other stakeholders connected with CPEC.

Independent-facilitator notice: PIDW acts solely as an independent facilitator. Inclusion on the roster is not an endorsement, appointment, certification, or guarantee of work. Every engagement remains subject to the parties' independent selection, due diligence, consent, and contract.

Institutional partnership

Co-Hosts of PIDW'26

Seven institutions. One shared platform for advancing dispute resolution in Pakistan and beyond.

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Seven institutions. One shared platform.

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Purposeful connections, built for use

Business Matchmaking

Purposeful introductions connect decision-makers with the dispute-resolution expertise their projects, contracts, and organizations require.

Focused introductions

PIDW Business Matchmaking Desk

PIDW creates curated, purposeful introductions between organizations, project leaders, and decision-makers from construction, infrastructure, energy, power, and oil and gas, and the arbitrators, mediators, adjudicators, and institutions best placed to understand their commercial and dispute-resolution needs.

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Connections shaped by need

From the Right Brief to the Right Room

The Desk begins with each participant's sector, project stage, and commercial priorities. It then brings relevant decision-makers and dispute-resolution professionals into focused conversations designed around real mandates, not generic networking.

Pakistan's Peace Mandate

Land of the Sufis

Pakistan's Sufi tradition is more than cultural memory. It is a living language of dialogue, restraint, and reconciliation.

Mediating Fractures. Securing Sovereignty.

Pakistan's Sufi inheritance places dialogue, dignity, and reconciliation at the centre of public life. PIDW26 asks how that tradition can strengthen a credible, neutral mediation voice.

Pakistan's facilitative role in the Iran–United States conflict reflects that principle: keep channels open and create a route back to diplomacy. The Peace Mandate brings the same voluntary, consent-based approach to disputes through carefully vetted professionals, available pro bono where all parties agree.

  • 01 Neutrality without political alignment
  • 02 Consent, confidentiality, and procedural trust
  • 03 Vetted pro-bono dispute-resolution expertise
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PIDW'26 Theme

Islamabad
as Seat.

From a capital that convenes dialogue to a trusted legal home for international disputes.

PIDW26 brings institutions, practitioners, business, and government together to advance the rules, talent, infrastructure, and confidence required to establish Islamabad as a serious seat of arbitration and dispute resolution.

Discover the PIDW26 theme

Together in Purpose, United for Peace.

Pakistan's Peace Mandate emblem

As war between Iran and the United States tests regional stability, Pakistan has chosen the role of mediator and facilitator, keeping channels open with both sides, supporting the Islamabad MoU and the Pakistan–Qatar roadmap, and pressing for restraint, dialogue, and a negotiated peace. PIDW26 brings institutions and dispute resolvers into that same purpose: turning principled neutrality into practical pathways back to the table.

The PIDW Ecosystem

One platform.
Many ways in.

Attend the annual gathering, contribute to the programme, find specialist capability, or explore routes into business, investment, projects, and Pakistan's emerging opportunities.

Ways to take part

Start with the contribution you want to make.

These routes lead to the current participation enquiries; submitting them does not yet create a stored application.

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Impact with evidence

A record that keeps moving forward.

Verified historic figures from the public PIDW archive—not projections, attendance estimates, or promotional reach.

03
Completed editions
03
Host cities across Pakistan
16
Defining moments in the record
  1. 2023 · LahoreThe first chapter

    Judicial dialogue, regional-seat ambition, and a reform agenda established the platform’s direction.

  2. 2024 · KarachiThe network expands

    The second edition widened PIDW’s institutional and judicial network in Pakistan’s commercial centre.

  3. 2025 · IslamabadInternational reach

    The third edition connected international expertise, institutions, technology, and practical business exchange.

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Behind the platform

Organizing Entity

PIDW is the public platform and mission. MSJC LLP is the organising and execution engine behind it.

MSJC LLP

Organizing engine

MSJC LLP conceived, develops and organises PIDW, building partnerships, bringing stakeholders together and converting ideas into operating initiatives.

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Barrister Mian Sheraz Javaid

Founder

Mian Sheraz Javaid, FCIArb

PIDW was conceived and founded by Barrister Mian Sheraz Javaid in 2022. His engineering and legal background shaped its interdisciplinary approach to projects, contracts, institutions, investment and disputes.

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