Islamabad:Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed thanked North Macedonia and UAE for praising Pakistan for its efforts to promote peace between Iran and the United States amid the Middle East conflict.
The praise came during an international conference organised by Global Council for Tolerance & Peace (GCTP), which was attended by speakers of Tanzania and Malta, as well as parliamentary, political, think tank and opinion leaders of 22 countries of Europe, Asia, Africa and South America.
Among them was Senator Mushahid. He met President of North Macedonia Gordana Davkova, who appreciated Pakistan’s pivotal role in hosting peace talks between Iran and the US, and wished good luck for their success.
In his speech, Ambassador Ahmed bin Mohammed al-Jarwan, who is from the UAE and was previously Speaker of the Arab Parliament, profusely praised Pakistan’s initiatives for peace to end the conflict in the Gulf and for hosting Iran-US peace talks.
Senator Mushahid said world was in an historic transition marked by turbulence and transformation, with the Iran War accelerating the process of unraveling of the Western-led international order. He said the decline and division of the West was an irreversible process, as the Western-led order was based on double-standards and hypocrisy on issues facing the Global South.
He condemned the US-Israeli aggression against Iran, terming its failure a ‘good omen’ for the emerging world order as it showed that ‘Might is Right’ policy has failed’. He briefed the conference on Pakistan’s role in serving as an ‘honest broker’ between Iran and US, adding that peace was ‘within reach in a few weeks’.
Terming China’s rise as ‘unstoppable’, he said President Trump’s recent China visit was preceded by failure of US tariff/trade war against China and now after Trump’s trip, US had accepted China as an equal partner, which could outcompete US in science and technology. Senator Mushahid said Pakistan strongly believed in interfaith harmony and respected Christian and other non-Muslim communities contributions to Pakistan’s development.
