Rabbani offers ideas for Karachi peace

Pakistan People’s Party leader and senior politician Senator Raza Rabbani on Thursday came up with some suggestions to heal the wounds of Karachi. Speaking in the Senate, the upper house of the parliament, the veteran politician called for action against terrorists after evolving consensus amongst political and religious parties in Karachi, which has long faced wave of violence, ranging from sectarian and ethnic to political. He said coordination among the state agencies needed to be increased. The senator said committees should be formed on province level to maintain peace, adding that suspected terrorists should not be freed from lockups. He said that the detainees should be given their legal rights. Rabbani said that SHOs should not be appointed at the behest of others while law enforces should be provided with the phone tracking system facility. He said that efforts were continuing to pit state institution against each other. Raza Rabbani warned that measures taken on country’s situation might prove ineffective. Rabbani said that the parliament and the judiciary were attacked to scandalize the institutions.