Mian Raza Rabbani is a senior Pakistan's law-maker

Law

Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...

 and a Senator

Senate of Pakistan

The Senate of Pakistan is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Pakistan. Elections are held every three years for one half of the senate and each senator has a term of six years...

 from Sindh

Sindh

Sindh historically referred to as Ba'ab-ul-Islam , is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and historically is home to the Sindhi people. It is also locally known as the "Mehran". Though Muslims form the largest religious group in Sindh, a good number of Christians, Zoroastrians and Hindus can...

 to the Parliament of the Pakistan, representing Sindh Province . He is current Minister of Inter-Provincial Co-Ordination. Rabbani, a senior and respective political figure of Pakistan Peoples Party

Pakistan Peoples Party

The Pakistan Peoples Party , is a democratic socialist political party in Pakistan affiliated with Socialist International. Pakistan People's Party is the largest political party of Pakistan...

, has led a very active political life and has long been a staunch supporter of former Prime minister

Prime Minister of Pakistan

The Prime Minister of Pakistan , is the Head of Government of Pakistan who is designated to exercise as the country's Chief Executive. By the Constitution of Pakistan, Pakistan has the parliamentary democratic system of government...

 Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, and the Pakistan Peoples Party

Pakistan Peoples Party

The Pakistan Peoples Party , is a democratic socialist political party in Pakistan affiliated with Socialist International. Pakistan People's Party is the largest political party of Pakistan...

 (PPP). He served as the Information Secretary of the Pakistan Peoples Party in District East Karachi, Deputy General Secretary of the PPP Karachi division, member Sindh Executive Committee PPP, President of the 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. He served as the Leader of the House in the Senate of Pakistan

Senate of Pakistan

The Senate of Pakistan is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Pakistan. Elections are held every three years for one half of the senate and each senator has a term of six years...

 until March 9, 2009.

Education

Senator Rabbani is a lawyer by profession. After his early education at the Habib Public School

Habib public school

Habib Public School Karachi is a boarding university-preparatory school located in Karachi, Pakistan.-History:The school started on 7 July 1959 with four blocks of buildings: Ahmed House, Ghulam Ali House, Dawood House, and Sharif House. The first administrator of the school was late Mr...

 in Karachi, he joined the University of Karachi

University of Karachi

The University of Karachi is a public university located in Karachi, Pakistan. It serves an on-campus student population of more than 24,000. According to the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, it is ranked among the top three universities of the country...

earning his B.A. degree in 1976. Thereafter, he opted for Law and Jurisprudence and earned his LLB from the same University in 1981. During his student life, Mian Raza Rabbani pioneered the National Organization of the Progressive Students and was its founder Chairman from 1971 to 1974.

Political career

Senator Rabbani has held many important positions during his career. He has been Federal Law Minister and the Minister of State for Interprovincial Relations. Senator 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 protest 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.

Parliamentary Committee on National Security

Despite his disagreements with his party, Senator Rabbani was named by the President to be the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security and the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reform (PCCR).

Public image

Raza Rabbani is one of the very few politicians who has been able to attain and sustain a high level of credibility in the eyes of public as well as among all the political parties. He is one politician who does not have any scandals associated with him; financial, moral, or political. He does not come from a feudal background, but earned his credibility as a competent lawyer and then as a principled based political leader.

Support for democracy

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 between 1977 and 1993. Even his university graduation ceremony took place while he was in jail. 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.

Raza Rebbani is the author of a book, LFO, A Fraud on the Constitution.