Pakistan’s attempts to unseat members of an ICSID tribunal for their conflicts of interest regarding a dispute over mining in Pakistan filed in 2012. Ignacio Torterola of GST LLP in Washington, D.C., counsel for Pakistan, expressed that “Pakistan’s only hope was to have an independent and impartial tribunal in a case as important as this one, in which the future of an underdeveloped part of the world is at stake.”