Senate Committee on Defence Chairman Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed, who is leading a Pakistani parliamentary delegation to the annual conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), has forcefully condemned Israeli crimes against humanity and accused its Western supporters of ‘hypocrisy and double standards’.
Addressing the general assembly of the IPU, Syed urged legislation to counter Islamophobia as it was divisive, racist and bred violence against Muslims.
The IPU comprises 170 member parliaments, of which Pakistan has an active role as an elected member of the Executive Council of the Committee on Human Rights of Parliamentarians and the Committee on Peace and Democracy, as stated in a press release issued here.
During the IPU conference, Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed was invited to address the General Assembly thrice, address the Islamic and Asia-Pacific regional group meetings, and invited for an address to the Socialist International group.
