Mushahid Hussain Syed Politician
Mushahid Hussain Syed (Urdu: مشاہد حسین سید ; b. 1953), is a conservative journalist, political scientist, geostrategist, and a former media mogul, currently serving as the senator on a Pakistan Muslim League (Q) platform to Senate of Pakistan. As of current, he is the current Secretary-General of the Pakistan Muslim League, a centrist party.Educated and graduated from the Forman Christian College University in Pakistan and the Georgetown University in the United States, Sayed started his career in the journalism when he became the founding editor of the former leading newspaper, The Muslim in the 1970s and subsequently arrested by the Military Police for staging a demonstration movement against the military coup d'état by General Zia-ul-Haq in 1979. He came to public limelight and international notice in 1997 when Sayed was appointed as the minister of ministry of information and mass-media broadcasting and subsequently called for successful nuclear tests, (see Chagai-I in 1998. Sayed was the principle media spokesperson and had the control of the media representative services in the country during his stay as minister. Sayed was again arrested in 1999 by General Pervez Musharraf who successfully staged a 1999 coup d'état against the government of Prime minister Nawaz Sharif.Sayed was subsequently released in 2000 and later defected to splinter group of Pakistan Muslim League, and appointed as general-secretary of the splinter group. In 2008, he secured the nomination for the office of President of Pakistan but conceded his defeat in favour of Asif Ali Zardari.
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| Birth date | January 01, 1952 |
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| Birth name | Mushahid Hussain Syed |
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| committee | Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Kashmir Affairs and Northern Areas (FORKANA) |
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| office | ((1997-1999;1990-1993)) ((2002-2007)) General Musharraf Government Navaz Government |
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