Raza Rabbani
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"List of Senators of Pakistan/Senator Mian Raza Rabbani", is a Pakistani Nationalism in Pakistan/nationalist–Socialism in Pakistan/left-wing politician and a constitutional lawyer who serves as the Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan/Chairman of Senate of Pakistan since 12 March 2015; as chairman senate, he is the second in the Line of succession to the President of Pakistan/line of succession to the President of Pakistan.

He served as the chairman of the List of committees of the Senate of Pakistan/Senate standing committee on National Security and Constitutional reforms, between 2008 till 2013 and was responsible for the drafting of Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan/Amendment XVIII which turned Pakistan from a semi-presidential to a parliamentary republic. He has been elected a Senate of Pakistan/senator for six times since 1993 from the Sindh Province. He was a close aide to Benazir Bhutto who had appointed him the party’s deputy secretary general in 1997 and leader of the opposition in the Senate in 2005.

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The people of Pakistan are rather disappointed. They have seen the U.S. pay a great deal of lip service supporting democracy in Muslim countries, but when we look at what is happening in Pakistan, President Bush says he shares the president's views and his democratic vision for Pakistan. For a great many, that is flawed.

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India-US relations appear as state-to-state relations but Pakistan-US relations are more like relations between individuals.

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Pakistan has never been so unstable, and the federation has never been under greater political strain.

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What has been made clear to the world and the people of Pakistan is that under the present regime general elections in 2007 cannot be free, fair and transparent.

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This was the biggest poll fraud that has taken place in Pakistan's electoral history.

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I don't think that Pakistan's opposition parties are included in the US president's schedule.

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We are expecting nothing better from the government and its allies in the second round in terms of rigging, in terms of high-handedness and in terms of the involvement of government machinery in the election process.

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