Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of Pakistan
In office 8 June 2013 – 28 July 2017
Preceded by
Dr. Nadeem Ul Haque
Succeeded by
Sartaj Aziz
Minister for Education
In office 31 March 2008 – 13 May 2008
Preceded by
Javed Ashraf Qazi
Minister for Minorities
In office 31 March 2008 – 13 May 2008
Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of Pakistan
In office 13 August 1998 – 12 October 1999
Preceded by
Hafeez Pasha
Succeeded by
Dr. Shahid Amjad Chaudhry
35th Minister for Interior
In office 4 August 2017 – 31 May 2018
President
Mamnoon Hussain
Prime Minister
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi
Preceded by
Nisar Ali Khan
Succeeded by
Muhammad Azam Khan (caretaker)
Personal details
Born
(1959-03-28) 28 March 1959 (age 65)[1] Narowal District, Punjab, Pakistan
Political party
Pakistan Muslim League (N) (2011-present)
Relatives
Chaudhry Abdul Rehman Khan (maternal grandfather) Nisar Fatima (mother)
Alma mater
University of Engineering and Technology Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Ahsan Iqbal Chaudhary (Urdu: احسن اقبال چوہدری; born 28 March 1959) is a Pakistani politician currently holding the position of Federal Minister of Planning, Development, and Special Initiatives and Inter Provincial Coordination. He is also the Secretary General of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) and has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since 29 February 2024.
Previously, Chaudhary served as a member of the National Assembly during various terms: from August 2018 to August 2023, from 2008 to May 2018, and from 1993 to 1999.
He held ministerial positions in several cabinets. He served as the Federal Minister for Planning and Development from 19 April 2022 to 10 August 2023 in the PDM government. From 2017 to May 2018, he served as both the Minister for Interior and Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms in the Abbasi cabinet. In the third Sharif's ministry, he held the positions of the Minister of Planning and Development of Pakistan and the Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission of Pakistan and briefly served as the Minister of Minorities and Minister of Education of Pakistan in the Gillani ministry in 2008. He also assumed the role of the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of Pakistan from 1998 to 1999 during the Sharif's second ministry. Moreover, he served as federal minister for planning and development from 19 April 2022 to 10 August 2023.
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AhsanIqbal Chaudhary (Urdu: احسن اقبال چوہدری; born 28 March 1959) is a Pakistani politician currently holding the position of Federal Minister of Planning...
the Cabinet Committee on Chinese Investment Projects (CCoCIP) under AhsanIqbal, and a committee to "speed up" the privatization of Pakistan International...
August 2017). "New cabinet takes oath: Khawaja Asif foreign minister, AhsanIqbal interior minister". DAWN.COM. Archived from the original on 4 August...
28 July 2017. "New cabinet takes oath: Khawaja Asif foreign minister, AhsanIqbal interior minister". DAWN.COM. 4 August 2017. Archived from the original...
married to the late Iqbal Ahmed Chaudhry and had four sons and two daughters. She was the mother of interior minister of Pakistan, AhsanIqbal. Members of National...
September assigned the portfolio back to incumbent interior minister AhsanIqbal who headed the Ministry of Planning and Development in the previous cabinet...
from the original on 14 November 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2017. "AhsanIqbal likely to take charge of Finance Ministry". Pakistan Today. 16 November...
Ahmed Iqbal Chaudhary (Urdu: احمد اقبال چوہدری) is a Pakistani politician who is member-elect of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab. Chaudhary won the...
judicial inquiry during a session of the National Assembly. However, AhsanIqbal, leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), expressed conditional...
directed by Iqbal Hussain, written by Fakhra Jabeen and produced by Momina Duraid under MD Productions. The serial stars Mawra Hocane, Ahsan Khan, Zaviyar...
Shakeel (13 December 2017). "Govt to issue e-passports from March 2018: AhsanIqbal". DAWN.COM. Archived from the original on 27 January 2018. Retrieved...
promote Urdu in official business, but Pakistan's Minister of Planning AhsanIqbal stated, "Urdu will be a second medium of language and all official business...
Karachi and in 1960 founded the Hassan Ali Company along with his brother AHSANIQBAL. By 1970s, it had become Pakistan's largest cotton trading company. However...
went on to serve as a minister in the government of General Zia Ul Haq. AhsanIqbal is his maternal grandson. Madan Gopal Poddar, Sudhansu Bhusan Sen (1951)...
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