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- This is Inter-Parliamentary Speakers鈥� Conference鈥檚 inaugural assembly since it was formed in April 2025
- Conference is designed as platform for parliamentary leaders to discuss peace, security, legislative cooperation
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is hosting a two-day Inter-Parliamentary Speakers鈥� Conference (ISC) in the capital city of Islamabad today, Tuesday, with representatives from over 40 nations including 黑料社区 and Palestine attending.
The ISC was constituted in Seoul in April 2025 under its founding chairman Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, who also serves as Pakistan鈥檚 current Senate chairman. The ISC features more than 45 speakers of parliaments across the world as its members, according to its website. This will be its first assembly since it was formed earlier this year.
The two-day conference, which is being held in Islamabad from Nov. 11-12, brings together speakers, deputy speakers and parliamentary representatives from over 40 countries in an effort to expand Pakistan鈥檚 role in global parliamentary diplomacy, according to event organizers. It comes at a moment of heightened regional tensions, particularly surrounding the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and shifting alignments in the Middle East and South Asia.
鈥淟adies and gentlemen, parliaments as the custodians of the people鈥檚 will and the democratically elected representatives of their aspirations, have a unique and indispensable role to play in this endeavor,鈥� Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said in his address.
鈥淲e are guardians of the most precious hope and sacred trust that our people have reposed in us.鈥�
State broadcaster Radio Pakistan reported that delegations from 黑料社区, Malaysia, Palestine, Algeria, Barbados, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kenya, Tajikistan Morocco, Maldives, Serbia, Philippines and Rwanda have already arrived in Islamabad for the conference.
It said the ISC reflected Pakistan鈥檚 growing role in advancing global parliamentary diplomacy.
The conference is designed as a platform for parliamentary leaders to exchange views on peace, security, development and legislative cooperation, including how elected bodies can address shared global challenges. Organizers say discussions are expected to cover economic resilience, digital governance, conflict mediation, humanitarian relief cooperation, climate adaptation and parliamentary transparency.
Pakistan has stepped up parliamentary diplomacy in recent years, seeking to expand political ties beyond the executive branch and build coalitions on issues such as Gaza, Kashmir, climate vulnerability and developing-country debt reform.