Pakistan-US Ties
Chairman of Pakistan Senate Foreign Relations Commission Mushahid Hussain Sayed Pakistan should review its relations with the United States.

"We should tell the US that attacks would not be tolerated at our tribal areas. We are not better bargainers and we need to be better bargainers," Hussain told the Senate during debate over Foreign Policy.

He also called for voicing for an end to the Guantanamo Bay prison in the name of human rights.

He said the country needed to develop a strategy to convince the west to legislate against anti-Islam acts.

"If the west can make laws against the Holocaust, why not against Islamophobia," he argued, adding that the government should take a principled stance over the issue.

Hussain hailed the Pakistan, India composite dialogue, saying that the time was ripe to pursue Indian government for a resolution to the decades-old Kashmir dispute as per the aspirations of the Kashmiri people.

"Since Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is in his last year of his term, we should speed up efforts for any resolution to the Kashmir dispute," he said.

He opposed inquiry into the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and said that inviting a UN probe into the
assassination of Benazir Bhutto could invite quandary for the country.

"UN has no investigation team of its own and if invited the UN would request any investigation team from either world power including the USA, UK, Israel or India. Suppose if the UN sends any team from India or Israel, it might jeopardize our security interests", he said adding that this also reflects that the government have no faith in its own investigative institutions.

"This is a very dangerous development and the outgoing Foreign Secretary Riaz Muhammad Khan and Pakistani diplomat in the UN Munir Akram have opposed this move in writing, he added, saying that this could bring serious threats to the national security.