Legal Research Institute of Pakistan

Legal Research Institute of Pakistan (LRIP) is a Think Tank, established in view of Article 17 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and registered under the Society’s Act. It provides legal perspective on the questions of public importance and has established four departments namely Defense, Diplomacy, Economy and Energy.

LRIP has acknowledged Dr. Richard E. Smalley’s research entitled “Humanity’s Top 10 Problems for Next 50 Years” as the questions of public importance and has devised a research based mechanism to address these issues. The list is as follows:

1. 1)      Energy
2. 2)      Water
3. 3)      Food
4. 4)      Environment
5. 5)      Poverty
6. 6)      Terrorism and War
7. 7)      Disease
8. 8)      Education
9. 9)      Democracy
10. 10)  Population

In the area of Energy, LRIP has established the Center of Excellence for Energy Studies, CEES, and under this department conducted a study on environment and discovered that the World Health Organization, in its Outdoor Air Pollution (OAP) Database for cities, has declared three of Pakistan’s cities namely Quetta, Peshawar and Lahore as the 4^th, 6^th and 10^th most polluted cities in the world respectively, and hence declared Environmental Pollution as a very important question of public importance to be addressed.

Accordingly, LRIP conducted an in-house session on 17^th May 2014 in which a founder group was established which endorsed and acknowledged its concept and passed a resolution requiring an initiative to address the menace of environmental pollution in Pakistan.

In pursuance of the resolution passed in the in-house session dated 17^th May 2014, LRIP, on 24^th May 2014, organized a presentation on “Status of Air Pollution in Peshawar: Where Do We Stand Right Now?”, delivered by Engr. Muhammad Ameer Hassaan Butt, Executive Director CEES and LCEP, which was followed by a questions & answers session in which recommendations were made requiring LRIP to initiate a complete plan involving the stake holders for a sustainable national policy on environment and to conduct a research to know where we stand right now.

It was also appreciated that our young scholars and students in attendance had expressed their interest in the cause and in the acknowledgement of their enthusiasm, held a Certificate Awarding Ceremony on 14^th June 2014 and honored their academic and extracurricular achievements.

In the aforementioned perspective, LRIP inaugurated and established the LRIP-CEES Environment Programme (LCEP) on 21^st June 2014 and under this programme, plans to bring an Environmental Revolution in Pakistan.