Syed Mushahid Hussain

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Mushahid Hussain Syed filing his nomination papers for the Presidency of Pakistan

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).

Mushahid Hussain Syed 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 closed), published from Islamabad, Pakistan

Mushahid Hussain Syed led Pakistan's delegation to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on 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.

Mushahid Hussain was nominated by Pakistan Muslim League (Q) as their candidate for President of Pakistan^[1].

He lost the Pakistani presidential election, 2008 to Asif Ali Zardari, who was elected President of Pakistan.^[2]^[3]