Mushahid Hussain
Mushahid Hussain Syed (Urdu: مشاہد حسین سید ) is a Pakistani politician who is the current General Secretary of the center-right Pakistan Muslim League (Q). He has served in the cabinet as federal minister of information from 1997 to 1999 in the Nawaz Sharif government. He was elected to the Senate of Pakistan in 2003 and is Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was also selected the Secretary General of the Pakistan Muslim League (Q), Pakistan's predominant political party. Mushahid at age 29 was the youngest Editor of a major newspaper, the Muslim (now defunct), published from Islamabad, Pakistan, and he led Pakistan's delegation to the UN Human Rights Commission at Geneva. Amnesty International in 1999 declared Mushahid as a Prisoner of conscience. Released in December 2000, Mushahid had been held in detention for 440 days.
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