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Senator Mian Raza Rabbani (Urdu: رضا ربانى; b. 23 July 1953), is a Pakistani nationalist–left-wing politician and a constitutional lawyer who serves as the 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. He served as the chairman of the Senate standing committee on National Security and Constitutional reforms, between 2008 till 2013 and was responsible for the drafting of Amendment XVIII which turned Pakistan from a semi-presidential to a parliamentary republic. He has been elected a 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. Prior to his work in constitutional politics, he is also a leading nationalist–left-wing figure and has extensively written on the topic of socialism and left-wing ideas. His credential led to his nomination to the Presidency by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).〔http://dawn.com/news/1030383/raza-rabbani-nominated-ppp-presidential-candidate〕 Raza Rabbani was awarded the highest civil award, Nishan-e-Imtiaz, for his parliamentary services. In addition, he was awarded the Bacha Khan Award for the Defence of Provincial Rights. The Human Rights Society of Pakistan selected him for the 2006 award for his invaluable services for human rights. He was Vice-chairman of the National Institute of Public Policy and member, Forum of Federations, Toronto. He has represented Pakistan as a delegate and speaker at the UN General Assembly, Inter-Parliamentary Union and Commonwealth Parliamentary Union. ==Early life and education== Raza Rabbani was born in Lahore on 23 July 1953 in a respectable Arain family. His family moved to Karachi where Rabbani attended the Habib Public School in Karachi, Sindh Province of Pakistan. After graduating from Habib Public School Rabbani was admitted in Karachi University to study Law and liberal arts in 1976. During his university years Rabbani was politically active, first playing pioneering role in establishing the National Organization of the Progressive Students and later held the chairmanship of Peoples Students Federation (PSF).〔 The PSF is a student union body directly linking to Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) founded in the 1970s to promote student politics in the country.〔 In 1988, Rabbani earned BA (Hons) in Economics and a LLB degree in civil law from the Karachi University. His father, Group Captain (Rtd) Ata Rabbani served as the first ADC (aide de camp) to Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Raza Rabbani」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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