More on BIPPA and the media

A section of the Nepali media, including Nagarik daily, had reported that under Nepal-India BIPPA, compensation for losses arising from incidents other than war, national emergency, riots and insurrection--e.g., labour strikes and shutdowns--would be decided by a Nepal-India joint business/industrial committee. This scribe went through the BIPPA text posted on the website of the Ministry of Industry of Government of Nepal only to find no such provision. It is good that such a provision is not there. But this also ridicules the hoopla created by the media about how the BIPPA, by addressing India's security concern for the investment of its nationals in Nepal, will trigger a bounty of investment from south of the border and thereby help reduce our trade deficit with India, which stood at 200.87 billion rupees in the first 11 months of FY 2010/11 as per Nepal Rastra Bank. Unless one can interpret strikes and shutdowns and the locking up of managers as "riots". Or unless there is a letter of exchange to that effect.
Is this just poor reporting or something more sinister?
No attention has been given to the provision related to expropriation, which also includes indirect expropriation, in Article V.
One thing that one can infer from the brouhaha over the BIPPA is this: India, Nepal government, the media all believe that the security situation of New Nepal is going to worsen further in the days to come; insurgency, rioting, state of emergency, civil war are going to be the order of the day.
Let the fox guard the hen pen.