ISLAMABAD: Former Chairman Senate Mian Raza
Rabbani on Monday accused the government of a dual policy and asked for
withdrawal of
sedition case against students, ‘who had raised voice for their fundamental right of forming student union’.In a statement issued here, Senator
Rabbani termed the registration of an FIR
against 300
students as unfortunate, condemned it and demanded its withdrawal. He pointed out that
students were demanding their fundamental rights guaranteed under Article 17 of the Constitution 1973 for lifting of the ban on student unions.“The duality of policy of the government is evident from the fact that it withdrew the notification of the prosecution team in the high treason
case against general Musharraf and then went on to file a petition in the Islamabad High Court, praying that the special court be restrained from announcing its order on November 28, 2019,” he pointed out.Senator
Rabbani contended that this was a matter in which the constitutional dispensation in the country had been disrupted through constitutional means.The Committee of the Whole of the Senate of Pakistan, he recalled, in August, 2017, after hearing all the stakeholders passed a consensus resolution calling on the federal government to the extent of the Federal Capital Territory and the provincial governments to lift the ban on student unions in educational institutions and regulate the same in order to ensure zero tolerance for violent activities.
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