Raza Rabbani

Rabbani was elected as an executive member in Inter Parliamentary Union in October 2019 as candidature of Indian National Congress leader Shashi Tharoor was withdrawn by BJP led Indian Government.

After the PPP lost the 2013 general election, he was made additional secretary general of PPP by Zardari.

In July 2013, he was nominated by PPP as their candidate for the presidential office.

In response to insurgency situation in the country, Rabbani reputedly declared that "Politico-religious parties and right-wing political groups are conniving with the establishment to damage and weaken left-wing parties." His statement came during the 2013 general elections, in which, left-wing parties were under immense pressure from the right-wing insurgent groups to limit their political campaigns. Rabbani later accused the international community for supporting the conservative parties in an opposition against the leftist parties. While accusing former president Parvez Musharraf for supporting the ultra-conservative alliance to curb the left-wing parties, Rabbani, with another Marxist Taj Haider, accused the West and the United States of supporting right wing parties for their bid in the elections.

He was re-elected to the Senate in 2012 for six years.

In 2011, he was inducted into the federal cabinet with the rank of federal minister and appointed as the Federal Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination and Human Rights where he briefly served from February 2011 until his resignation in May 2011.

In April 2011, Rabbani also heavily criticised the US over their drone operations in North-Western Pakistan in the Parliament, commenting that United States is following a major violation of international law and human rights.

He was inducted into the federal cabinet and served as Advisor to the Prime Minister from March 2010 until his resignation in February 2011 in protest against Asif Ali Zardari's decision to form a coalition with the PML (Q).

He remained Leader of the House in the Senate from 2008 to 2009.

After Musharraf left the office of Presidency in 2008, Rabbani was inducted into the federal cabinet with the rank of federal minister and appointed as Advisor to the Prime Minister on Inter-Provincial Coordination where he served until 2009 when he resigned after he was nominated by PPP as chairman of the Senate.

Despite his disagreements with PPP's leadership, 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 in 2008.

He was re-elected to the Senate in 2006 for six years.

He remained Leader of the Opposition in the Senate from 2005 to 2008. After PPP won the election in 2008, he refused to become a member of the federal cabinet of Yousaf Raza Gillani due to issues of taking oath from then president of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf.

He was re-elected to the Senate in 2003 for three years.

His services and credentials led to his simultaneous appointment to the chairmanship of the Beginning of the Rights of Balochistan where he worked on presenting a package to redress the problems of the Balochistan Province to the joint sessions of the Parliament. Despite his recommendations, none of the provisions in the packages would be carried out by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani who would later entangle with the Supreme Court over the missing persons scandal. In 2003, Rabbani demonstrated his opposition against the Iraq war in 2003, over the issue of its nuclear program.

Rabbani has written in support of socialism, communism, constitutional justice, and left-wing ideas. In 2003, he authored a book, "LFO: a fraud on the Constitution", in a direct opposition to President Pervez Musharraf and a scheme of legitimising his rule.

In 1996, he became the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. In 1997, he was appointed as the deputy secretary general of PPP by Benazir Bhutto.

He was inducted into the federal cabinet in 1994 and appointed as the Minister of State for Law and Justice during the second government of Benazir Bhutto where he served until 1996.

He has been elected a senator 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. Rabbani has served as Federal Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination, Minister of State for Law and Justice, and Leader of the House and Opposition in the Senate. Raza Rabbani was unanimously elected as the Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan in March 2015.

He was elected to the Senate of Pakistan for the first time in 1993 where he served until 1999.

He was elected to the Parliament in 1988 Pakistani general elections and served as an advisor to Chief Minister of Sindh from 1988 to 1990.

Rabbani started his political career through PPP in the 1981.

Rabbani received his early education from Habib Public School in Karachi. He received his BA and LLB. (Bachelor of Law) degrees from the University of Karachi in 1976 and 1981, respectively.

Rabbani was politically active during his university years at the University of Karachi and was head of Liberal Students Federation in 1974. He is said to have affiliated with Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) since 1968. He was in jail during the rule of Zia u Haque. when he received his LLB. degree in 1981.

Mian Raza Rabbani (Urdu: رضا ربانى ; born 23 July 1953) is a Pakistani politician who served as the 7th Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan from March 2015 to March 2018.

Rabbani was born on 23 July 1953 in Lahore, Punjab.He spent his childhood in Karachi.