Senator Mian Raza Rabbani

Mian Raza Rabbani was born in Lahore on 23 July, 1953. After his early education at the Habib Public School Karachi, he joined the University of Karachi wherefrom he got his B.A. degree in 1976. Thereafter, he opted for education in Law and Jurisprudence and got the LLB from the same University in 1981 when he was in jail.

Mian Raza Rabbani is a political activist who has always stood for democracy, democratic norms and the cause of Human Rights. He was an active critic of the Martial Law Regime and hence was imprisoned under preventive detention laws for an accumulative period of more than thirty months from 1977 to 1993. He has led a very active political life and has been a staunch supporter of late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and the Pakistan Peoples Party.

During his student life, Mian Raza Rabbani pioneered the National Organization of the Progressive Students and was its founder Chairman from 1971 to 1974. He has been information Secretary of the Pakistan Peoples Party District East Karachi, Deputy General Secretary of the PPP Karachi division, member Sindh Executive Committee PPP, President Peoples Lawyers Forum Sindh and eventually joined the central committee of the PPP. He performed the duties of deputy general secretary and acting general secretary.

Mian Raza Rabbani has been in many important positions. Some of these include, advisor to the Chief Minister Sindh for Cooperatives from 1989 till 1990. He has been a Law Minister and the Minister for Interprovincial Relations. He led a number of Youth delegations to various international events and is a recipient of the Services of Human Rights Award of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, Pakistan in 1986.

Mian Raza Rabbani was elected as member of the Senate of Pakistan in March, 1994 for a six-year term. He was a member of the Senate Standing Committees on Foreign Affairs, Kashmir Affairs and Northern Areas and Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs.

He was the leader of the Opposition and later Leader of the House of the Senate of Pakistan. He resigned in March 2009 from three positions as a protect for reasons he said were communicated by him to his party. These positions were Minister of State, Leader of the House in the Senate and his position in the Central Committee of PPP. It is speculated that the protest was against several decisions by his party which were not on merit and principles of democracy.

Mian Raza Rabbani currently is the chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security and the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reform (PCCR).

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