- Rabbani says redefine foreign policy with a strong parliament to win war against terrorism
Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani has said that all the parliamentary parties must come forward to adopt a unified stand against terrorism through their proposals to the parliament.
He said that a collective national narrative against terrorists and extremists ideologies cannot come from the Islamic seminaries rather all stakeholders and political parties will have to reach a consensus in this regard and present it through the parliament.
He said that war against terrorism cannot be won without a refined foreign policy and a strong parliament. Owing to the promotion of wrong policies, ethnic clashes and sectarianism by some of former rulers, Pakistan was struggling and gripped with terrorism in its worst manifestations, he said.
He was talking to journalists outside the Combined Military Hospital here in Quetta, following his visit to inquire after the health of Senate’s Deputy Chairman Abdul Ghafoor Haideri and other injured persons of Mastung carnage. “We should learn some lesson from history and must change our attitudes with our own people,” he said.
He said that the American war was imposed on Pakistan and the wrong policies of the past were ugly faces of the terrorism taking place in Mastung and Gwadar. The Senate chairman said that military and civil leaders have to be united for defeating terrorism. He said the current war was an ideological war and all the parliamentary parties have to present proposals for its elimination.
He said that all have to come on a single page for the success of the Radd-ul-Fassad security operation after the success of the Zarb-e-Azab operation. “Pakistan is passing through a ‘critical time’ and national solidarity is the need of time instead of blaming each other,” he said.
Rabbani said that relations with India cannot improve until the solution of the Kashmir issue, adding that the initiation of the negotiation process with Iran, Afghanistan and other SAARC member countries is much essential to open the doors of durable peace and prosperity in the country.
