Buenos Aires, 8 November 2022 (TDI): Syed Naveed Qamar, the Minister for Commerce and Investments of Pakistan has been elected as the President of Parliamentarians for Global Action.
The election for the position was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Syed Naveed Qamar defeated Dip. Margarita Stobilzer, a very senior member of parliament from the host country, with an overwhelming majority of more than 90% of the vote.
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Dip. Margarita Stobilzer is an Argentinean lawyer and prominent politician. Naveed Qamar has the honor of being the first Pakistani Member of Parliament elected to lead Parliamentarians for Global Action for a two-year term (2023–2024).
Naveed Qamar vowed at the occasion to organize lawmakers to advance issues relating to population, climate, democracy, rule of law, human rights, and gender equality.
Parliamentarians for Global Action
Approximately 1,300 lawmakers from more than 140 elected parliaments worldwide are members of the non-profit, non-partisan international network known as Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA).
It helps to create an environment that is conducive to positive change by facilitating connections between parliamentarians and civil society, as well as by bridging the gap between domestic and international policy-makers.
PGA was established in 1978 in Washington DC, by a group of parliamentarians from around the world for collective, cohesive, and coordinated actions on global problems.
Syed Naveed Qamar
Syed Naveed Qamar is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since August 2018. Between 1990 and May 2018, he served as a Member of the National Assembly.
He held the positions of Defense and Finance Minister between 2008 and 2013. In the 1988 Pakistani general election, Qamar was elected from PS-37 Hyderabad to the Sindh Provincial Assembly, where he served from 19 November 1988 to 6 August 1990.
The position was an initiation of Syed Naveed Qamar into the political realm. In the 2018 Pakistani general election, he was re-elected as a PPP candidate from Constituency NA-228 (Tando Muhammad Khan) to the National Assembly.
Since September 2018, he has been presiding over the Parliament’s Standing Committee on Commerce.
