Syed Arif Hussain Al Hussaini (Urdu: علامہ عارف حسين الحسينى; 25 November 1946 – 5 August 1988) was an Twelver Shīʿā Muslim scholar, Islamist ideologue, Islamic Jurist, and Islamic Revolutionist Political leader of Shia Muslims in Pakistan.
His family belongs to the Husseini branch of Syeds, which trace descent to the fourth Shi'a imam, Zayn al-‘Ābidīn.
In the same year, he became the first person to recite a majlis in Pashto, which is unusual given that the vast majority of Pashtuns are Sunni rather than Shia but he was also a strong promoter of shia-sunni unity.
He also leveraged funding from the Shia Pakistani diaspora in the Persian Gulf to create the Alamdar Foundation in his hometown of Parachinar.
The former President Zia-ul-Haq and special representatives of Imam Khomeini, Ayatullah Jannati,[18] participated in his funeral rites.
It is also alleged that Zia-ul-Haq was also involved in the assassination of Hussaini for his Anti-American views he also had disagreements with Zia-ul-Haq he claimed that the Islamization policies of Zia are in the benefit of America and its allies instead of Islam and Pakistan he believed that Zia's policies could rise a regional sectarian conflict in the future, shortly after the CIA-led Operation Cyclone, Hussaini openly voiced opposition to the Zia regime for supporting American-Israeli interference in the region and he also criticized the Soviet Union for destabilizing the region however he stated that the Pakistan would continue to support the Afghan mujahideen against Soviet force's in Afghanistan without the help of America and its ally's because he believed that the Pakistan's collaboration with America and its allies is like betraying Palestine.