Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)’s senator and senior politician Raza Rabbani asked Friday ‘why the government was in haste to help Afghan Taliban when the latter were not respecting Pakistani border’ referring to an incident where the new rulers in Afghanistan had reportedly barred Pakistan’s security forces from fencing the border.
Adressing the Senate session on Friday, Senator Raza Rabbani asked Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi to take parliament into confidence on the reported issue.
The Senate of Pakistan on Friday passed a resolution condemning heinous murder of Sri Lankan manager at a Sialkot factory by an extremist mob, few weeks ago.
Expressing his views about the incident, PML-N’s senator Azam Nazeer Tarar said extremist voices become louder once logic, acceptance are taken away from society. “Such [extremist] incidents surged during past three decades, after military dictator Zia-ul-Haq’s era. Sialkot incident shook our existence” Tarar said.
“The foremost responsibility of this house is to legislate and make laws that protect interests of poor and grilled class” PML-N leader said.
He said that political leadership of Pakistan needed to act seriously to protect mass’s interests. “Unfortunately, instead of eliminating such extremist thoughts and acts, we ignore them. Islam taught us to accept opposite view point, stay patient and pardon others” he said.
Former Chairman Senate Raza Rabbani expressed alarm over reports that the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was regrouping in Afghanistan, “which could possibly fuel terrorism in Pakistan”.
“They are not ready to recognise the border, so why are we moving forward?” questioned Rabbani, during the session Friday.
Rabbani went on to say that Pakistani state promoted and planted ‘ultra-right wing politics’ since it came into being. “We used them to fulfill our political agendas, which created political instability” Rabbani told Senate.
He said that extremist organizations established a de-facto state inside the state and the authorities remained silent. “We are talking for the right of Afghan people but can the foreign minister tell us why Afghan forces barred Pakistani security forces from fencing the border?” he asked, adding that “Pakistan could no more co-exist with secret pacts and agreements”
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