Rabbani asks PM to name new airport after Benazir

ISLAMABAD: Former Senate chairman Raza Rabbani, who belongs to the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), has asked Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to name the new Islamabad international airport after slain premier Benazir Bhutto.

The title of new Islamabad Airport has been a matter of intense debate since the government decided not to name it after any personality despite the fact that old Islamabad airport is named after Benazir Bhutto who was assassinated in Rawalpindi in 2007 in a Taliban attack.

“It Is An unfortunate relection on how we honour our civilian national heroes,” Rabbani said in a letter written to Abbasi.

Benazir Bhutto was a valiant ighter In THE struggle For DEMOCRACY, rule of law and the supremacy of the Constitution, he said adding that she freed Pakistan from the shackles of Gen Ziaul Haq’s Martial Law and was inally Assassinated In THE streets of Rawalpindi, crusading against terrorism and extremism.

Adviser to Prime Minister on Aviation Sardar Mahtab Khan has stated that the new airport will not be named after any personality and Its OFICIAL name will BE ISLAMABAD International Airport (IIAP)

Rabbani recalled that New York’s International Airport was renamed John F. Kennedy after the former US president was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. A large number of airports throughout the world bear the names of prominent international personalities, he stressed.