Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi
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Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi (Urdu: چودھری پرویز الہی) (born November 1, 1945) is the Chief Minister of the most populous province Punjab, since November 29, 2002.
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[edit] Background
Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi is a son of late Pakistani politician, Chaudhry Manzoor Elahi. He is from a political and business family, commonly referred to as Chaudhrys of Gujrat.
His cousin and brother-in-law, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan from May to August 2004.
[edit] Education
He studied at Forman Christian College, graduating in 1967, and obtained a diploma in Industrial Management from the University of London.
[edit] Political career
He become chairman of the Gujrat district council in 1983; and has been serving as a MPA (Member of the Provincial Assembly) of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab since 1985.
He served as Minister for Local Government and Rural Development during 1985-88, 1988-90 and 1990-93. He was Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Assembly during 1993-96, and also the Leader of the Opposition later. He was the Speaker of the Punjab Assembly during 1997-99.
In elections of 2002, he was elected for a sixth consecutive term from two constituencies - PP-110 (Gujrat) & PP-292 (Rahim Yar Khan). Since November 29, 2002, he is the Chief Minister of Punjab.
He is also the President of his political party, Pakistan Muslim League (PML), in Punjab. On 24 July 2006 he was elected, second time unopposed, the President of the PML for next three years.
| Preceded by Shahbaz Sharif |
Chief Minister of Punjab November 29, 2002 - |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
