Parties competent to execute contracts are at liberty to enter into arbitration agreements for resolution of their contractual disputes
PLJ 2018 Islamabad 224 (DB) Present : Aamer Farooq and Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb, J. CH. NASEER AHMED and another--Appellants versus RENT CONTROLLER and others--Respondents I.C.A. No. 171 of 2017, decided on 24.7.2017. Arbitration Act, 1940 (X of 1940)-- ----Ss. 20 & 34--Islamabad Rent Restriction Ordinance, 2001, Ss. 4 & 17(1)(2)--Application for stay--Dismissed--I.C.A. Dismissed--Lease agreement extendable--Arbitration clause--Maintainability--Question of--Whether applicants can remain in occupation of rented premises beyond 30.9.16--Challenge to--Jurisdiction--Parties competent to execute contracts are at liberty to enter into arbitration agreements for resolution of their contractual disputes--But when there is a special statute (such as IRRO) covering field of a particular dispute (such as eviction of a tenant), provisions of special statute alone have to be invoked and dispute cannot be referred to any other mode of adjudication--Rent Controller procee...