Practice Focus

His specialization is analysis of legal issues and of issues with legal implication, drafting legal documents with legal implications

Qualification

Mr. Basharat Qadir graduated from the Punjab University, Lahore in 1964 and completed his LLB degree in 1971. He enrolled as an Advocate in 1972 at Lahore and was enrolled as an Advocate of the Lahore High Court on 4th July 1974.

Other Servings

He worked as a Legal Consultant to PPIB (Pakistan’s Private Power & Infrastructure Board) from 1st April 1997 to 12th March 2001, and as its Director Legal, from 9th August 2001 to 31st December 2004. His main responsibilities at PPIB were to provide legal opinion and advice to PPIB in order to facilitate the establishment and running of power projects in accordance with the terms and conditions of the basic agreements, e.g IA (Implementation Agreement), PPA (Power Purchase Agreement), FSA (Fuel Supply Agreement) and/or WUA/ WUL (Water Use Agreement/ Water Use License), executed between the Government of Pakistan and IPPs (Independent Power Producers). He was actively involved in drafting and negotiating the Security Package which included the IA, PPA, FSA, and/or WUA/WUL in accordance with the GOP’s 2002 Power Policy. He also briefed, and liaised with a number of lawyers (including the Attorney General for Pakistan), engaged and monitored litigation counsel in different judicial forums of Pakistan/abroad as well as ICC Arbitration, involving the Government of Pakistan and PPIB. He prepared a GST Matrix of all the IPPs in PPIB’s portfolio. He prepared a draft statute for PPIB. He maintained liaison with National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA), WAPDA, KESC and NTDC in connection with issuance of Generation and Distribution Licenses to IPPs. He also provided legal opinions and support to the Administration, Personnel & Finance Sections of PPIB as well as to the Ministry of Water & Power on various legal issues. He also prepared and vetted Summaries for the Prime Minister, Cabinet, ECC etc.

He was Legal Consultant to USAID-Pakistan from 1st February 1984 to 31st March 1985 and Legal Advisor from 31st March 1985 to 31st August 1994 (for a total period of over ten years). He won a Meritorious Honor Award in 1987, Incentive Cash Awards in 1990 and 1993. He attended a two-weeks Seminar on Privatization and State-owned Enterprises, at IDLI (now IDLO) in Rome, Italy. Some of his prominent projects with USAID were: the establishment of TECHRED (a private-sector spin-off from the public-sector NESPAK), Sarhad Rural Support Corporation, The Pakistan Tree Farm Society, (Pakistan) TVO (Trust for Voluntary Organizations) and ACLU (Afghan Construction Logistics Unit).

He has provided legal services, inter alia, on regular basis to the US Embassy, Canadian High Commission, ADB, Action-Aid, Asia Foundation, CARE-International in Pakistan, Health Services Academy, Investment Corporation of Pakistan, National University of Science & Technology, OXFAM, Population Council, Save the Children Fund and Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad, JSI (John Snow International) etc. He drafted legal documents with legal implications, eg., an alternative NGO Bill for the NGO Community in 1996 and Health Services Academy Bill in 1997 for its establishment by special statute. His specialization is analysis of legal issues and of issues with legal implication, drafting legal documents with legal implications, and rendering legal advice and opinion.