While addressing a ceremony in the federal capital, Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani has admitted that when the matter of extension of military courts came to the parliament, he voted in its favor out of mental puzzlement.
He professed that it wasn’t section article 63A of the constitution that stopped him from opposing the extension of military courts but instead his cowardness.
Senate Chairman let it be known at the occasion that he would have resigned from Senate if not been a coward.
Raza Rabbani expressed at the occasion that his stance over military courts is still the same.
Senate Chairman let it be known at the occasion that he also thought about backing down, however that too would not have any impact as he ultimately had to sign the bill.
He went on to say that the chapters on democratic struggle are nowhere to be found in textbooks taught within Sindh and Punjab.
Raza Rabbani expressed that it is also a reality that there is no democracy inside the political parties and that democracy and political parties were not allowed to flourish within the country.
