KARACHI: Chairman Senate Raza Rabbani on Saturday said there was no provision of the ‘technocrats government’ in Pakistani constitution, ruling out any illegal transformation of the government in the country.
The chairman was talking to the media during a visit to this metropolis, which is his hometown as well.
Dispelling the rumours widely circulating in the country that the powerful establishment was inclined to send the present government packing and replacing it a technocrat government, Rabbani said in his view there was no conflict between the civilian government and the military in the country.
He however supported the ongoing wave of accountability in the country saying the accountability was the part of constitution and it was not possible to run a country or form a society without the concept of accountability.
He did not however name former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who was being facing a trial in an accountability court in Islamabad on the charges of financial corruption and who was removed from his office after being disqualified for the public representation by the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
Criticising the successive governments in Pakistan, the chairman senate said that much needed civil service reforms had never been a priority for any government.
Rabbani urged a comprehensive national dialogues among the government, judiciary and the military bureaucracy so that each of them could work in their respective constitutional periphery.
Talking about accountability he said that the senate, or the upper house of parliament would be the first institution of the government that was willing to offer itself for accountability. Both the senate and the senators had presented themselves for the accountability, he said.
Without naming former president General Pervez Musharraf, he also criticised the former military dictator for absconding from the country instead of facing the cases against him. Among many other cases Musharraf was proclaimed as absconder in slain prime minister Benazir Bhutto murder case.
The chairman senate also warned that the constitutional requirements were not fulfilled in the government that might put provincial sovereignty, that was guaranteed under the 18th amendment of the constitution, at risk.
Rabbani said that the present government failed to hold National Financial Commission (NFC) award to the provinces even though it presented three national budgets in its ongoing tenure.
