2001 Investment Climate Statements: Rabbani terms US report unacceptable

ISLAMABAD: Former chairman Senate Mian Raza Rabbani termed the US State Department’s Report “2001 Investment Climate Statements: Pakistan” as uncalled for and unacceptable. Pakistan’s institutions, including its judiciary, can be suffering from internal weakness and deficiencies but such criticism or remedial measures can come only from within Pakistan’s Constitution and other structures, he said. “No other country has the right to cast aspersions on institutions functioning under the Constitution and law in Pakistan,” he said while commenting on the US State Department’s Report “2001 Investment Climate Statements: Pakistan."

Rabbani said the United States should realize that Pakistan is not a client state, therefore, the state and its institutions cannot be subjected to ridicule. He said the judiciary, amongst other institutions, is open for criticism and reform within parameters of the Constitution and the law but such debate reformation is for the people of Pakistan.