On November 20, APP reported that the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP), Asia’s oldest and largest organization of political parties, unanimously elected Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed as ICAPP Co-Chairman at its biennial conference in Turkey. There were 200 representatives and leaders of 70 political parties from 33 countries participating.
Senator Mushahid’s name for Co-Chairman was proposed by Thailand and Iran, and supported by China, Cambodia, Russia, Lebanon, Turkiye, and Indonesia, before being put to a vote.
The ICAPP Conference also established the ‘Istanbul Declaration’ which expressed solidarity with victims of the ‘recent devastating floods in Pakistan of epic proportions and urged ‘alleviating hardships of people through climate finance and climate justice’.
Senator Mushahid Hussain spoke about Pakistan’s close friendships with countries in Asia, noting that the country’s founder Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah supported the cause of Indonesian Independence in 1945, the Palestine issue in 1940 and admired the leadership of Turkey’s Mustafa Kamal Ataturk.
