Avoiding Confrontation: ‘Judicial, political restraint needed’

Rabbani says political parties would have to remain steadfast through the current period of transition.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Raza Rabbani said on Saturday that judicial and political restraint is needed where every institution works within its own limits. While speaking at a dialogue entitled, ‘Conflict of Institutions and Sustainability of Democracy’, organised by the South Asian Free Media Association (Safma), Rabbani said that political parties would have to remain steadfast through the current period of transition, so that institutions are strengthened. “The current parliament has shown enough maturity and a degree of political restraint that has not allowed non-democratic forces to come to power,” he added.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 15^th, 2012.