Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain
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| In office June 30, 2004 - – August 20 , 2004 |
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| Preceded by | Zafarullah Khan Jamali |
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| Succeeded by | Shaukat Aziz |
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| Born | 1946 Gujrat, Pakistan |
| Political party | Pakistan Muslim League |
Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain (Urdu: چودھری شجاعت حسین) (born 1946) is a politician from Pakistan who was the Prime Minister of that country from June 30, 2004 until August 28, 2004. He hails from the province of the Punjab where his cousin Chaudhry Pervez Elahi is serving as Chief Minister.
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[edit] Early Years
Chaudhry Shujaat was born on January 27, 1946 in Gujrat and graduated from Forman Christian College, University of Punjab in 1967. His father, Chaudhry Zahoor Elahi, was a seasoned parliamentarian who played an important role in restoring democracy and human rights in Pakistan and was duly honored as the “Prisoner of Conscience” by Amnesty International when he was detained illegally by Zulifqar Ali Bhutto.
[edit] In Politics
Chaudhry Shujaat entered politics after his father was assassinated on September 25, 1981. - allegedly by political opponents aL Zulifiqar a terrorist group run by Murtaza Bhutto son of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. Chaudhry Shujaat became member of the federal parliament (Majlis-e-Shoora) in 1981 and worked till 1985. Chaudhry Shujaat for the first time contested in the general election from Gujrat on both the National and Punjab Assemblies seats in 1985 but had to vacate his Punjab Assembly seat and become a member of the then Prime Minister Muhammad Khan Junejo’s cabinet as the Industries Minister. He also acted as the parliamentary party leader of the PML in the National Assembly. He was appointed the Information and Broadcasting Minister in the Junejo cabinet in 1986 and was appointed the Industries and Production Minister in 1987-88.
Chaudhry Shujaat was the interior minister in Nawaz Sharif’s first tenure. After losing the election from Gujrat in 1993, Chaudhry Shujaat became a member of Senate and the Chairman of the Senate’s standing committee on defence, production and aviation from 1993 to 1997. He won the general election again in 1997 by defeating PPP candidate Ahmad Mukhtar. Nawaz Sharif appointed him the interior minister in his cabinet and was elected the Punjab PML-Nawaz president in 1997.
After the Nawaz Sharif government was sacked on October 12, 1999, several PML-N dissidents formed a group under Mian Muhammad Azhar’s leadership. Earlier, Chaudhry Shujaat did not join any group but after Nawaz Sharif’s exile, he also joined Mian Azhar and formed the PML (QA) in March 2001. In the general election of October 2002, Chaudhry Shujaat was elected the National Assembly member from Bhakkar and Gujrat but later vacated his Bhakkar seat and acted as the PML-QA parliamentary party leader in the National Assembly. After Mian Azhar’s resignation, Chaudhry Shujaat was elected the president of PML (QA) on January 2003. He was elected as Prime Minister on June 30, 2004, four days after Zafarullah Khan Jamali tendered his resignation from the premiership. He has been re-elected un opposed for three years, as president of Pakistan Muslim League rulling party of Pakistan, in 2006.
He along with his brothers and cousin Pervaiz Elahi has a number of cases pending against him of financial wrong doings. The most important of them all is Cooperative Scandal.
[edit] Trivia
- Entered politics in the year 1981 and Became Member of the Federal Parliament (Majlis-e-Shoora) in 1982-1985
- Elected Member of National Assembly: four times: (1985, 1988,
1997, 2002)
- Elected Senator, Member of Senate of Pakistan (1993)
- Chairman, Senate Committee on Defense, Defense Production &
Aviation (1993-1997)
- Held portfolios as Federal Minister:
- a) Minister for Information and Broadcasting (1986)
- b) Minister for Industries and Production (1987-1988)
- c) Minister for Interior (1990-1993)
- d) Minister for Interior & Narcotics Control (1997-1999)
- e) Leader Opposition Parliamentary Party in National Assembly
(1988-1990)
- f) President, Pakistan Muslim League, Punjab (1997-1999)
- g) Leader of the Parliamentary Party (PML(Q) (Ruling Party), Dec. 2002
- h) President, Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (January 2003)
- i) Elected President of Pakistan Muslim League, May 12th 2004
- j) Elected Prime Minister of Pakistan in June 2004,
- Resigned in-August 2004 as PM to devote full attention to Party as President.
- Diplomatic
- Honorary Consul General, Republic of South Korea since 1982.
- Awarded highest diplomatic award Order of the Diplomatic Service Merit "Ueung-in-Metal" for distinguished services in promoting mutual relations between Pakistan and Republic of Korea.
- Business
The family owns industrial units in textiles, sugar, flour milling and agricultural farms.
- Education: Graduated from Forman Christian College, Lahore,
Pakistan, 1967, Industrial Management degree, from London, England.
- Family
Wife, one daughter and two sons.
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| Preceded by Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali |
Prime Minister of Pakistan | Succeeded by Shaukat Aziz |
| Prime Ministers of Pakistan |
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| LA Khan | Nazimuddin | Bogra | Ali | Suhrawardy | Chundrigar | Noon | A Khan | Amin | Z Bhutto | ul-Haq | Junejo | ul-Haq | B Bhutto | Jatoi | Sharif | Mazari | Sharif | Qureshi | B Bhutto | Khalid | Sharif | Musharraf | Jamali | Hussain | Aziz |
| Preceded by Mian Muhammad Azher |
President of Pakistan Muslim League | Succeeded by Incumbent |
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