Transfer of powers to provinces; Opposing elements being watched: Rabbani
 

ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani on Thursday said that he had almost finalised his ruling on the issue of trichotomy of powers as he maintained that he was watching the elements which were working against the transfer of powers to the provinces.
He said that he would announce the ruling soon. He invited Senator Farhatullah Babar to his chamber on Friday (today) for discussion on the issue.
Speaking on a point of public importance, Senator Farhatullah Babar called upon Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani to announce his ruling on trichotomy of powers as the MPs expressed their apprehension over the shifting of power balance away from the elected Parliament.
He said that power was continuously shifting away from the civilian structures of the state as invisible forces were relentlessly busy re-writing the political and parliamentary narrative.
?And it is critical that an appropriate ruling is announced to put on notice these elements ahead of the forthcoming Senate elections,? he added.
Babar said that the continuing shrinking of civilian and parliamentary space and its taking over by invisible forces and civil-military bureaucratic complex was dangerous and must be curbed.
Senator Babar said during discussion on trichotomy of powers recently he had pointed out that the central issue was the systematic and deliberate shifting of locus of power from Islamabad to Rawalpindi and worse still the new locus was not accountable.
He said this phenomenon was summed up by former army chief General Jehangir Karamat while commenting on the Legal Framework Order (LFO) of General Pervez Musharraf, adding that General Karamat publicly admitted that the LFO represented the long standing desire of the military to re-write the civil-military equation on the terms of the military.?So neither is it anything new nor is there any doubt about what he has been saying.

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