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" D D.G. KHAN CEMENT CASE1: PAKISTAN JUDICIARY AGAIN LEADS THE WAY By Dr. Parvez Hassan2 In the D.G. Khan Cement case, Mr. Justice Mansoor Ali Shah has held proper and valid a Government Notification that prohibited the establishment or enlargement of industrial units and related activities in a certain designated area. Beyond the municipal law grounds, the judgment relies on the precautionary principle, citing Article 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, 1992, and travels well beyond the 1990s to rely on the new frontiers of environmentalism led by the dubio pro natura principle supported in the IUCN World Declaration on the Environmental Rule of Law, 2016. He goes further: he supports water justice with reference to the Declaration presented at the 8th World Water Forum in Brasilia in 2018. Agriculture is central to human survival and is probably most vulnerable to climate change. The hydrological cycle is similarly likely to be influenced by global warming, necessitating the agriculture and livestock sectors, particularly in rain-fed areas, to adapt to climate change. The World Water Forum, laying down the concept of water justice, declared that the State should exercise stewardship over all water resources, and protect them, in conjunction with their associated ecological functions, for the benefit of current and future generations, and the Earth community of life. Because of the close interlinkages between land and water and the ecological functions of water resources, any person with a right or interest to use water resources or land has a duty to maintain the ecological functions and integrity of water resources and related ecosystems. The precautionary principle should be applied in the resolution of water-related disputes. But the…