LHC short order to open doors to further adventurism: Rabbani

ISLAMABAD: Former chairman Senate Senator Mian Raza Rabbani Wednesday said that for the rule of law, parliament and politics, it seemed the Ides of March had come in January, 2020.

Commenting on the Lahore High Court judgment in relation to the case of former president General Pervez Musharraf's sentence, he said, “The Lahore High Court Short Order in the matter of Musharraf, the usurper, does not augur well for the rule of law and may open the doors to further adventurism”.

“The haste and lack of parliamentary procedure followed in the passage of the Services Tenures Bills, as also the role and behavior of political parties, has left a deep imprint on the political class and system,” he maintained.

The boot talk show, he pointed out, was an attempt to bring in controversy and disrepute a national organization and to degrade political workers. “Pakistan must ask itself the question, is it a coincidence that as the effects of the New World Order, begin to appear in the region, the attacks on Pakistani institutions, Parliament, the judiciary, the executive and the armed forces coupled with an assault on the federal structure of the Constitution i.e. provincial autonomy, have intensified,” he emphasised. The veteran legislator contended that Pakistanis must come out of their ego and recall history, recall the USSR.