Yusuf Raza Gillani Raja Pervaiz Ashraf Nawaz Sharif
Succeeded by
Raja Zafar-ul-Haq
In office 21 March 1993 – 20 March 1997
Prime Minister
Benazir Bhutto
26th Minister for Interior and Narcotics Control
In office 4 December 1988 – 6 August 1990
President
Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Prime Minister
Benazir Bhutto
Preceded by
Malik Nasim Ahmad
Succeeded by
Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain
Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs
In office 4 December 1988 – 6 August 1990
President
Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Prime Minister
Benazir Bhutto
Federal Minister for Education
In office 1988–1990
President
Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Prime Minister
Benazir Bhutto
Minister for Law and Justice
In office 4 December 1988 – 28 December 1988
President
Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Prime Minister
Benazir Bhutto
Preceded by
Rana Sanaullah
Succeeded by
Ashtar Ausaf Ali
Provincial Minister of Punjab for Information and Culture
In office 1975–1977
Provincial Minister of Punjab for Planning and Development
In office 1975–1977
Member of the Senate of Pakistan (Senator)
In office 2012–2018
In office 1993–1999
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
In office 18 November 2002 – 18 November 2007
Constituency
NA-124 Lahore-VII
In office 1990–1993
Constituency
Lahore
In office 2 December 1988 – 3 November 1990
Constituency
Lahore
Member of Provincial Assembly of Punjab
In office 1975–1977
Constituency
PP-28 Gujrat
Personal details
Born
(1945-09-27) 27 September 1945 (age 78) Murree, Punjab, Pakistan
Political party
PTI (2023–present)
Other political affiliations
PPP (1970-2023)
Education
Aitchison College
Alma mater
Downing College, Cambridge (LLM)
Chaudhary Aitzaz Ahsan (Punjabi, Urdu: چودھری اعتزاز احسن; born 27 September 1945) is a Pakistani politician and lawyer. He served two times as the Leader of the House in the Senate of Pakistan from 1994 to 1997 and again from 2012 to 2015. He also served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. He was elected a member of the Senate of Pakistan from Punjab in 1994. His tenure ended in March 2018.[1]
Born in Murree, Ahsan studied law at the Government College, Lahore and received a LLM from the Downing College, Cambridge. Ahsan became the Planning and Development Minister for Punjab in 1975. After the Operation Fair Play coup, Ahsan became a prominent figure of the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy. Ahsan was elected to the National Assembly from Lahore in 1988 and served as the interior minister of Pakistan under Benazir Bhutto's first government and served until 1990.
Ahsan was elected as a member of the Senate in 1994. He re-joined the cabinet after Benazir's re-election, and went on to serve as the Minister for Law, Justice and Human Rights until 1997. He served as the minority leader in the Senate between 1996 and 1999. Ahsan was elected to the National Assembly again in 2002, and went on to serve as the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association between 2007 and 2008. Ahsan was elected to the Senate in 2012 and in 2015 became the minority leader.
^"Senate of Pakistan". www.senate.gov.pk. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
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