Politician would have been declared 'traitor' for co-authoring a book with Indians: Rabbani
Mian Raza Rabbani said that tribal people have rendered immense sacrifices in the war on terror
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Former Senate chairman and Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) leader Mian Raza Rabbani on Friday said that if any politician had co-authored the kind of book being launched in India written by the former interlligence chiefs’ of Pakistan and India, he or she would have been labelled as a traitor.
Speaking on the floor of the Upper House of the Parliament, he said that if any civilian co-authored a book he or she would have been labelled as a traitor.
Rabbani further added that an unstopable protests would also have started in the country against the one who would have written the book.
The PPP leader asked whether General Durrani had taken permission from the government or his institution before authoring such a book.
Speaking on the constitution amendment, Mian Raza Rabbani said that tribal people have rendered immense sacrifices in the war on terror.
He said the valiant people of tribal areas have always demonstrated their patriotism and love to the country for which they deserve our appreciation.
Senate chairman Sadiq Sanjrani, meanwhile, directed the Ministry of Defence to submit its report on the book.
Earlier, ex-PM Nawaz Sharif said that an emergency meeting of the National Security Committee (NSC) should be held over a book written by two top ex-spies of India and Pakistan.
Sharif said that the content of the book should be discussed at the NSC meeting, implying that it should be treated just the way the NSC met after his statement on the 2008 Mumbai terror attack.
He said that former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Asad Durrani, through the book, had made public some classified information.
Durrani authored the book jointly with A.S. Dulat, a former head of the Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). The book has been styled as a conversation between two spymasters covers a wide range of subjects including NSA Ajit Doval’s way of functioning, the Kashmir issue and several thorny issues between India and Pakistan including Kulbhushan Jadhav, Balochistan and surgical strikes.
