Says Musharraf’s NRO was only meant to prolong his rule and continue aspresident, which was an irreversible mistake
SUKKUR: The Chairman of Senate, Raza Rabbani, has alleged that some bureaucrats andpoliticians have been attempting to derail the 18th Amendment.
Talking to the media invillage Daim Khan Dhamrah in Sanghar after condoling with Senator AajizDhamrah on the demise of his mother, he said that parliament had ensuredprovincial autonomy by passing the 18th Amendment, and it was the achievement ofthe democratic government but some bureaucrats and politicianshad been hatching a conspiracy to derail it.
However, he warned the federalgovernment of an agitation if any stepfor derailing the 18th Amendment was taken.Raza Rabbani said the federalgovernment was reluctant to implement the 18th Amendment in its spirit.
Raza Rabbani said thatbeing the chairman of the Senate, he would not comment over the privatization ofPIA. He said that it was the duty of the Interior Ministryand Sindh government to trace the four missing employees of PIA.
Talking about the drought situation in Thar, he dispelled the allegation that negligence on part of the provincial government had caused the deaths of children in Thar. Raza Rabbani refused to comment on the arrest of UzairBaloch.
He claimed that Musharraf’s NRO was only meant to prolong his rule and continue aspresident, which was an irreversible mistake, and Musharraf and his ambition distorted the democratic institutions as well as the country.
Talking about theassassination case of Benazir Bhutto, he said that very soonfacts would come before the masses. He said that the Charsadda andQuetta incidents showed the presence of terrorismnetworks and the fightagainst terrorism was a long war.
Raza Rabbani said that the Operation Zarb-e-Azb had given some very good results, and that it should be continued till the total eliminationof terrorism.Talking about the Kashmir issue, he said that the Indian government and itsestablishment were not mentally and politically ready to resolve the Kashmirissue.
APP adds: The Chairman of Senate, Mian Raza Rabbani, has said that the Sindh government was making all-out efforts to resolve the problems in Thar.He said this during a visit to the Daim Khan Dhamrah Village near Shahdadpur in Sanghar district where he offered his condolences to Senator Aijaz Dhamrah on the demise of his mother. He said the former dictator for his lust to prolong power had damaged democracy in the country. He said that all findings on the murder of Benazir Bhutto may be disclosed to the public.
Expressing concerns over the incident of Charsadda, he said that winning the war against terrorism would take time, but we had succeeded in breaking the back of terrorists, and the war would continue till the elimination of all the terrorists.He said the Indian establishment was not ready to resolve the issue of Kashmir.