ISLAMABAD
\nFormer Senate chairman Raza Rabbani on Sunday said that speculations with regard to presidential system and change in basic structure of the constitution have surfaced again.
\n\u201cThere is chatter with regard to an attempt to rollback 18th Amendment and create the One Unit again,\u201d Rabbani has said. \u201cNo effort will be allowed to rollback 18th Amendment,\u201d Senator Rabbani said.
\n\u201cWe were thinking that the existing parliament was thinking about the new parliament but this parliament thinking to roll back the parliament,\u201d Raza Rabbani said.
\n\u201cDon\u2019t play with the basic structure of the constitution,\u201d he advised.
\nHe had also expressed opposition to the passage of the Foreign Investment (Promotion and Protection) Bill, 2022 which paved the way for the signing of a settlement deal on Reko Diq mining project as he termed the legislation an \u201cattempt to rollback 18th Amendment\u201d.
\nRaza Rabbani, who is a senior leader of the Pakistan People\u2019s Party, earlier observed that the parliament\u2019s powers were encroached upon by the executive.
\nThrough subordinate legislation, an attempt is being made to roll back the 18th Constitutional Amendment\u201d, he observed. Rabbani was one of the four senators from the treasury benches who had opposed the bill in the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD Former Senate chairman Raza Rabbani on Sunday said that speculations with regard to presidential system and change in basic structure of the constitution have surfaced again. \u201cThere is chatter with regard to an attempt to rollback 18th Amendment and create the One Unit again,\u201d Rabbani has said. \u201cNo effort will be allowed to rollback […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-310475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n