Mushahid Hussain

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Syed Mushahid Hussain (Urdu: سید مشاہد حسین ) (also known as Mushahid Hussain Sayed, Mushahid Hussain Syed and Syed Mushahid Hussain) 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.