ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The former Chairman Senate and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) senior leader Mian Raza Rabbani has said that the talk of banning a political party by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz-Nawaz (PML-N)-led federal government is against all the norms of democracy, and that the government should refrain from talking such a step.
Earlier in the day, the Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar said in a Press Conference that the federal government had decided to move the Supreme Court of Pakistan to ban Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
In a statement on Monday, the PPP leader said that the Country is already facing grave economic and political instability such a step will add political chaos and bog down the economy.
Raza Rabbani said that this economic and political chaos can be a recipe for destabilizing the entire democratic system, which if happens, will have effect on the federation, given the already sharp internal fault lines.
The PPP leader further said that the government should concentrate on curbing the increasing trends of internal terrorism as a consequence of which members of the armed forces, security forces, police and civilians are being targeted.
Mian Raza Rabbani also said that the government, if aggrieved by the judgment of the Full Court, should follow constitutional way and file a review petition.
The PPP leader said that the step of banning a political party in Pakistan’s history has always been unsuccessful and been thrown in the dustbin of history.
 senior leader Mian Raza Rabbani has said that the talk of banning a political party by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz-Nawaz (PML-N)-led federal government is against all the norms of democracy, and that the government should refrain from talking such a step.){kind=link}