lieutenant nationality residence birthname term_end alma_mater profession committees order term_start image name otherparty occupation caption vicepresident deputy predecessor birth_place president cabinet party successor religion primeminister article_title
jehanzia savar ivan pakistan islamabad , ict mushahid hussain syed 12 october 1999 18 april 1993 forman msc -rrb- christian college -lrb- ba -rrb- georgetown university -lrb- journalist , strategist chairman kashmir affairs and northern areas -lrb- forkana -rrb- of the senate committee on foreign relations , secretary-general of information and media broadcasting ministry of telecommunications of pakistan muslim league -lrb- q-wing -rrb- ministry 20 august 2002 17 february 1997 6 november 1990 mushahid hussain syed.jpg mushahid hussain syed pakistan muslim league -lrb- navaz wing -rrb- statesman mushahid presidency of pakistan hussain sayed filing his nomination papers for the khälied ränjha tärik azim khan tasneem qureshi samina khalid ghurki sialkot , punjab province , west-pakistan khälied ränjha ghulam ishaq khan navaz 1993 -rrb- general musharraf government -lrb- 2002 -- 2007 -rrb- government -lrb- 1997 -- 1999 ; 1990 -- pakistan muslim league -lrb- q-wing -rrb- mgen rashid qureshi rana shaukat mehmood islam navaz sharif mushahid hussain syed

mushahid hussain syed

mushahid hussain syed -lrb- ; b. 1953 -rrb- , is a conservative journalist , political scientist , geostrategist , and a former media mogul , currently serving as the senator on a pakistan muslim league -lrb- q -rrb- 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 , -lrb- 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 .
