Thank you Mr Farhatullah Babar

WISDOM has dawned on Presidency and Senator Farhatullah Babar who had moved a private bill in the Senate to bring the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency (ISI) under some legislative control has withdrawn it. As editorially suggested by this newspaper on Tuesday, such an initiative was detrimental to the interests of the State and would have, if pressed ahead, created mistrust among state institutions.

Particularly we say so because Farhatullah Babar is not just one of the Senators but he is a close confidant of President Asif Ali Zardari and who, in due course of time, has emerged as a multi-faceted well-informed articulate personality. Therefore the tabling of the bill would have given a wrong signal and created misunderstanding if not deepened it. In our view Farhatullah Babar has demonstrated superb sense of accommodation and in the larger interest of on going democratic system rightly withdrawn the bill and not made it an issue of ego. Farhatullah Babar, as a diehard democrat during his previous stint as Senator and now expresses his views in the Upper House of the Parliament with force and in an articulate manner which are appreciated by members from across the political divide and his initiatives are taken note of with keen interest. Thus Mr Babar deserves appreciation of all concerned and this is how it should be because we strongly believe that the on going democratic system should not be derailed and the incumbent government must complete its constitutional tenure as this the only way Pakistan can emerge as a democratic and economically viable State.