Rabbani stresses on army, parliament consultations

ISLAMABAD: Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) Chairman Raza Rabbani Saturday underscored the need of consultations between the army and the parliament, but the final decision should rest with the parliament.

"The parliament made a good initiative, army too stepped up; this beginning should not end now," Rabbani said.

Addressing the Youth Parliament here, Raza Rabbani said that the army should be under the subordination of the parliament and the people in democracy. He said that the civil-military bureaucracy had cropped up at the very beginning since Pakistan came into being. The existing or any other governments have been in the hostage of this bureaucracy.

Raza Rabbani said that the existing judiciary was the first ever in the country which didn’t ratified the actions of the autocrat.

Senator Rabbani said that the army has a role in the national security, but those raiding in the night could not be supported. He said that the PCNS should not have been made, as this was the creation of an army autocrat and added instead the cabinet’s Defence Committee should be strengthened.

He said our country could not survive without the federation. He further said that the violent incidents on the occasion of Ishq-e-Rasool Day actually hurt its noble purpose.