The Senate Foreign Relations Committee was formed on April 19, 2004. The Committee has a total membership of 12 Senators. It has a distinguished membership of experienced parliamentarians and public figures. Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed is the elected Chairman of the Committee.

Senator Sartaj Aziz was the first Chairman of the Committee (1994 - 1997) and
Senator M. Akram Zaki was elected as the Committee's Chairman after Senator Sartaj Aziz (1997 - 1999).

Functions of the committee:
According to the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Senate (1988), a committee of the Senate has the following functions:
46. FUNCTIONS.
46.(1)
A Committee shall examine a Bill, subject or matter referred to' it by the Senate and shall submit its report to the Senate with such recommendations including suggestions for legislation, if any, as it may deem necessary. In the case of a Bill, the Committee shall also examine whether the Bill violates, disregards or is otherwise not in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution.
146.(2)
The Committee may propose amendments which will be shown in its report alongwith the original provisions of the Bill; but the Committee shall have no power of preventing the Bill from coming to the Senate.
146.(3)
If a Committee does not present its report within the period prescribed, or the time allowed, the Bill, subject or matter referred to it may be considered by the Senate, without waiting for the report, upon a motion by any member or by the Minister concerned.

Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee:
Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed (Chairman)

Members of the Committee:
Senator Wasim Sajjad
Senator S. M. Zafar
Senator Prof. Khurshid Ahmed
Senator Maulana Sami-ul-Haq
Senator. Col (R) Tahir Hussain Mashhadi
Senator Nisar A. Memon
Senator Sardar Muhammad Latif Khan Khosa
Senator Muhammad Talha Mahmood Aryan
Senator Muhammad Ali Durrani
Senator Gulshan Saeed

ex-Officio member of the Committee (Minister for Foreign Affairs)
Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Foreign Minister

Secretary Committee and its Staff
Mr. Iftikhar Ullah Babar, Additional Secretary, Senate Secretariat, is the current Secretary of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Staff of the Chairman, Foreign Relations Committee.