Raza Rabbani criticises US committee for taking up Pak election issues

ISLAMABAD: Former Chairman Senate Raza Rabbani said the US Congressional Committee taking up the issue of general elections in Pakistan is a blatant intervention in the internal affairs of a sovereign country, and demanded that the Foreign Ministry must take a belated notice and warn the US against such intervention.

“My head as a proud Pakistani citizen of a free and sovereign country hung in shame as I watched the proceedings of the subcommittee of the US House as the proceedings left an impression that Pakistan is not even a client state but one of the states of the US,” he said in a statement on Thursday.

He said taking up the issue of general elections in Pakistan is a blatant intervention in the internal affairs of a sovereign country. “My concern is that if today interference in internal affairs of Pakistan goes unnoticed, tomorrow it can be matters of our national security which can be taken up,” he said.

Rabbani said bartering our financial sovereignty to the IMF does not mean that we have become a client state of the West and that any country can interfere in our internal affairs.

The Former Chairman Senate said elections have been held in other countries as well but they have not been brought into question.

Raza Rabbani said if it is a question of an elected House acting on its own then tomorrow our Parliament should discuss the US policy on Palestinians which is creating a destabilizing effect in the world, or the various US House proceedings against Trump.